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Category: Isak Dinesen

I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.

World, People, Think

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Love, Life, Age

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

When you have a great and difficult task something perhaps almost impossible if you only work a little at a time every day a little suddenly the work will finish itself.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.

self, knowledge

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing like a hidden physical defect.

secrets, secrecy

I don’t think that… one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death.

I don’t think that … one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death….

difficult, days

After a little while you became aware of how still it was out here. Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel like it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.

The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears, or the ocean.

love, saltwater, tears

The true aristocracy and the true proletariat of the world are both in understanding with tragedy. To them it is the fundamental principle of God, and the key,—the minor key,—to existence. They differ in this way from the bourgeoisie of all classes, who deny tragedy, who will not tolerate it, and to whom the word of tragedy means in itself unpleasantness.