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Perhaps to them the first condition for anything having real charm was this: that it must not really exist.
— Karen Blixen
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
The views were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequealled nobility.
— Karen Blixen
I turned to the animal world from the world of men; my heart was heavy with the tragedy of the night.
— Karen Blixen
I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.
— Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.
— Karen Blixen
Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.
— Karen Blixen
And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa.
— Karen Blixen
When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.
— Karen Blixen
I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.
— Karen Blixen
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
There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself.
— Karen Blixen
I know of a cure for everything: salt water ... in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.
— Karen Blixen
Much which is unworthy in human life might be avoided if people would only accustom themselves to talking in verse
— Karen Blixen
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
Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.
— Karen Blixen
There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned
— Karen Blixen
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
A great artist is never poor.
— Karen Blixen
Here I am, where I ought to be.
— Karen Blixen
I have conquered them all, but I am standing amongst graves
— Karen Blixen
We can only go to the limits of ourselves. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone.
— Paula McLain
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