Isak Dinesen
Quotes by Isak Dinesen
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It is an alarming experience to be, in your person, representing Christianity to the natives.
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It is an alarming experience to be, in your person, representing Christianity to the natives.
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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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We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power; it should close up, when we leave it, without a trace.
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God made the world round so we could never see too far down the road.
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God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
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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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Men and women are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
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What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
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In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.
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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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