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Isak Dinesen Inspirational Quotes (75)

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Do you know a cure for me? Why yes, he said, I know a cure for everything. Salt water. Salt water? I asked him. Yes, he said, in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.
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Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our pious grandmothers told us.
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You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
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It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.
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It is often the case with a new idea that when it comes knocking on society's door with modesty and the best premises for its existence, there is a tremendous outcry from inside.
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It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.
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For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.
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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.
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Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.
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One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.
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God made the world, My Lord, and looked at it, and saw that it was good. Yes. But what if the world had looked back at him, to see whether he was good or not?
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I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
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It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.
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It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature — that is the true carnival!
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And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.
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We invent the past and remember the future.
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There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.
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Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth. The habit of honoring one single instant of the universal process to the disadvantage of other instants has done more, perhaps, than anything to obfuscate the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux.
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In those days I had various strong inclinations, for wine, gambling and cockfighting, and the society of gypsies, together with a passion for theological discussion which I had inherited from my father himself-all of which my father thought I had better rid myself of before I married.
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To set sail somewhere is more important than life itself.
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death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.
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No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.
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our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.
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Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated, and the Natives neither confounded the persons nor divided the substance.
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