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Danish Writer April 17, 1885 – September 7, 1962

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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
It is terrible and unbearable to an artist,' he said, 'to be encouraged to do, to be applauded for doing his second best.' He said: 'Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost! Isak Dinesen
Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words ‘straight’, ‘square’, and ‘flat’ the words of noblemen, but the apple was an orb, and the sin of our first parents, the attempt at getting around God. I myself much prefer the art of painting to sculpture Isak Dinesen
At times I believe that my feet have been set upon a road which I shall go on following, and that slowly the centre of gravity of my being will shift over from the world of day, from the domain of organizing and regulating universal powers, into the world of Imagination. Already now I feel...that day is a space of time without meaning, and that it is with the coming of dusk, with the lighting of the first star and the first candle, that things will become what they really are, and will come... Isak Dinesen
Isak Dinesen quote: "Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart..."
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best. Isak Dinesen
It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or to make the rifles go off, that the dream is declining, and turning into the nightmare, which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams. Isak Dinesen
through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth 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: "God made the world round so we would never be able to see too..."
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. 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
When the first steam engine was constructed, the roads of the races of the world parted, and we have never found one another since. Isak Dinesen

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