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Top 31 wise famous quotes and sayings by Karen Blixen

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Karen Blixen Famous Quotes & Sayings

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Karen Blixen quotes: Perhaps to them the first condition for anything having real charm was this: that it must not really exist. Perhaps to them the first condition for anything having real charm was this: that it must not really exist.
Karen Blixen quotes: When I heard this I became very sad, but I thought that now I would indeed have to take him with me so that the Virgin herself could enlighten him. When I heard this I became very sad, but I thought that now I would indeed have to take him with me so that the Virgin herself could enlighten him.
Karen Blixen quotes: The views were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequealled nobility. The views were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequealled nobility.
Karen Blixen quotes: I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.
Karen Blixen quotes: Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother. Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.
Karen Blixen quotes: When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music. When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.
Karen Blixen quotes: Where, My Lord, is music bred - upon the instrument or within the ear that listens? The loveliness of woman is created in the eye of man. Where, My Lord, is music bred - upon the instrument or within the ear that listens? The loveliness of woman is created in the eye of man.
Karen Blixen quotes: I know of a cure for everything: salt water ... in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea. I know of a cure for everything: salt water ... in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.
Karen Blixen quotes: Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road. Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.
Karen Blixen quotes: The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the salt sea. The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the salt sea.
Karen Blixen quotes: Much which is unworthy in human life might be avoided if people would only accustom themselves to talking in verse Much which is unworthy in human life might be avoided if people would only accustom themselves to talking in verse
Karen Blixen quotes: Write a little every day, without hope, without despair. Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.
Karen Blixen quotes: Our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home. Our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.
Karen Blixen quotes: A medal is an inconvenient thing to give to a naked man, because he has got no place to fix it on to. A medal is an inconvenient thing to give to a naked man, because he has got no place to fix it on to.
Karen Blixen quotes: There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned
Karen Blixen quotes: We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power. We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.
Karen Blixen quotes: A great artist is never poor. A great artist is never poor.
Karen Blixen quotes: To die for the one you loved was an effort too sweet for words. To die for the one you loved was an effort too sweet for words.
Karen Blixen quotes: For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide. For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.
Karen Blixen quotes: Here I am, where I ought to be. Here I am, where I ought to be.
Karen Blixen quotes: I have conquered them all, but I am standing amongst graves I have conquered them all, but I am standing amongst graves
Karen Blixen quotes: In a world of fools, I was, I think, to him one of the greater fools. In a world of fools, I was, I think, to him one of the greater fools.
Karen Blixen quotes: 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. 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.
Karen Blixen quotes: Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best. Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.
Karen Blixen quotes: It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him. It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.