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

Here I am, where I am supposed to be. — Isak Dinesen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Real art must always involve some witchcraft. — Isak Dinesen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story. — Isak Dinesen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that. — Raymond Carver

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

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

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

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

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

We invent the past and remember the future. — Isak Dinesen

As writer Isak Dinesen put it, All sorrows can be borne if we put them in a story or tell a story about them. — Sue Monk Kidd

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

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

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

The divine art is the story. — Isak Dinesen

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

What was it Isak Dinesen had said about salt as a cure? Tears, sweat, or the sea. She could use a cure. — Nina Post

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

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

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