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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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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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While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.
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We invent the past and remember the future.
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During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.
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death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.
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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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When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.
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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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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.
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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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To be a person is to have a story to tell.
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It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.
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I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them.
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I do not see eye to eye with the camera.
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Be not afraid of absurdity do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.
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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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To set sail somewhere is more important than life itself.
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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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My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady.
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