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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
If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages ...
— 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
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
I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
— Isak Dinesen
Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story.
— Isak Dinesen
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.
— 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
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
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
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
