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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

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. — 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

Our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home. — 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

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

We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power. — Karen Blixen

A great artist is never poor. — Karen Blixen

To die for the one you loved was an effort too sweet for words. — Karen Blixen

For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide. — 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

In a world of fools, I was, I think, to him one of the greater fools. — Karen Blixen

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

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

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him. — Karen Blixen