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Danish Writer April 17, 1885 – September 7, 1962

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I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this sort of “religiousness” is the condition for real happiness. Isak Dinesen
What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat playful puppies into old mangy blind dogs, and proud war horses into skinny nags, and succulent young boys, to whom the world holds great delights and terrors, into old weak men, with running eyes, who drink ground rhino-horn? Isak Dinesen
You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted" here, or that I would exchange it with that of anyone I know. Isak Dinesen
Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest. Isak Dinesen
Isak Dinesen quote: "I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never..."
I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you... Isak Dinesen
You know, Tembu," said Mira suddenly, after a pause, "that if, in planting a coffee tree, you bend the taproot, that tree will start, after a little time, to put out a multitude of small delicate roots near the surface. That tree will never thrive, nor bear fruit, but it will flower more richly than the others."Those fine roots are the dreams of the tree. As it puts them out, it need no longer think of its bent taproot. It keeps alive by the? a little, not very long. Or you can say that it... Isak Dinesen
Emmanuelson said good-bye to me; he started to walk, and then came back and said good-bye once more. I sat in the car and watched him, and I think that as he went he was pleased to have a spectator. I believe that the dramatic instinct within him was so strong that he was at this moment vividly aware of being leaving the stage, of disappearing, as if he had, with the eyes of his audience, seen himself go. Exit Emmanuelson. Should not the hills, the thorn-trees and the dusty road take pity and... Isak Dinesen
Isak Dinesen quote: "I think it will be truly glorious when women become real..."
I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them. Isak Dinesen
Isak Dinesen quote: "In a world of fools, I was, I think, to him one of the greater..."
In a world of fools, I was, I think, to him one of the greater fools. Isak Dinesen

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