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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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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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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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I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.
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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 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.
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The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
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Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
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Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.
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For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.
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