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

Isak Dinesen

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I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with the dusk on the farm-roads, or the smoke on the plain. I begun in the evenings to write stories, fairy-tales, and romances, that would take my mind a long way off, to other countries and times.
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My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady.
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It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.
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The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are the privileged person to whom everything is taken. The Kings of Tarshish shall bring gifts.
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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.
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It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.
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Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.
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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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One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.
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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.
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I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.
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Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
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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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It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.
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There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows
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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
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I do not see eye to eye with the camera.
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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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As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things but then we do not much mind what happens to us one way or the other.
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The flamingoes are the most delicately colored of all the African birds, pink and red like a flying twig of an oleander bush. They have incredibly long legs and bizarre and recherché curves of their necks and bodies, as if from some exquisite traditional prudery they were making all attitudes and movements in life as difficult as possible.
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