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Isak Dinesen quotes: Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

Isak Dinesen quotes: Here I am, where I am supposed to be.

Here I am, where I am supposed to be.

Isak Dinesen quotes: What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?Experience, old people's experience.

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?
Experience, old people's experience.

Isak Dinesen quotes: Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

Isak Dinesen quotes: I don't think ... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you ...

I don't think ... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you ...

Isak Dinesen quotes: To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.

To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.

Isak Dinesen quotes: The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.

The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.

Isak Dinesen quotes: If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages ...

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages ...

Isak Dinesen quotes: The cure for anything is salt water - tears, sweat, or the sea.

The cure for anything is salt water - tears, sweat, or the sea.

Isak Dinesen quotes: One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.

One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.

Isak Dinesen quotes: My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady ...

My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady ...

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

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

Isak Dinesen quotes: All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story.

All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story.

Isak Dinesen quotes: Real art must always involve some witchcraft.

Real art must always involve some witchcraft.

Isak Dinesen quotes: If there were one more thing I could do, it would be to go on safari once again.

If there were one more thing I could do, it would be to go on safari once again.

Isak Dinesen quotes: Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.

Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.

Isak Dinesen quotes: Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.

Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.

Isak Dinesen quotes: I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.

I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.

Isak Dinesen quotes: hornbill was another visitor to the farm, and came there to

hornbill was another visitor to the farm, and came there to

Isak Dinesen quotes: But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

Isak Dinesen quotes: It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.

Isak Dinesen quotes: One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best ...

One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best ...

Isak Dinesen quotes: A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

Isak Dinesen quotes: People work much in order to secure the future; I gave my mind much work and trouble, trying to secure the past.

People work much in order to secure the future; I gave my mind much work and trouble, trying to secure the past.

Isak Dinesen quotes: Where a pack of monkeys had traveled over the road, the smell of them lingered for a long time in the air, a dry and stale, mousy smell.

Where a pack of monkeys had traveled over the road, the smell of them lingered for a long time in the air, a dry and stale, mousy smell.

Isak Dinesen quotes: I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

Isak Dinesen quotes: Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story.

Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story.

Isak Dinesen quotes: The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred.

The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred.

Isak Dinesen quotes: It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

Isak Dinesen quotes: One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.

One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.

Isak Dinesen quotes: Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90

Isak Dinesen quotes: I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.

I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.

Isak Dinesen quotes: I do not see eye to eye with the camera.

I do not see eye to eye with the camera.

Isak Dinesen quotes: I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.

I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.

Isak Dinesen quotes: I have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong.

I have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong.

Isak Dinesen quotes: It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.

It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.

Isak Dinesen quotes: Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

Isak Dinesen quotes: There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

Isak Dinesen quotes: In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

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

Isak Dinesen quotes: We invent the past and remember the future.

We invent the past and remember the future.

Isak Dinesen quotes: While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

Isak Dinesen quotes: I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them ...

I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them ...

Isak Dinesen quotes: Very old families will sometimes feel upon them the shadow of annihilation.

Very old families will sometimes feel upon them the shadow of annihilation.

Isak Dinesen quotes: The divine art is the story.

The divine art is the story.

Isak Dinesen quotes: Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

Isak Dinesen quotes: It is an alarming experience to be, in your person, representing Christianity to the natives.

It is an alarming experience to be, in your person, representing Christianity to the natives.

Isak Dinesen quotes: Life and death are like two locked caskets, each of which contains the key to the other.

Life and death are like two locked caskets, each of which contains the key to the other.

Isak Dinesen quotes: And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.

And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.