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Isak Dinesen Quotes

«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...»
«The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea»
«When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.»
Author: Isak Dinesen (Writer) | Keywords: at a time, finish, suddenly
«God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.»
«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?»
«The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept»
Author: Isak Dinesen (Writer) | Keywords: entire, kept, kept woman
«I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.»
«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.»
Author: Isak Dinesen (Writer) | About: Love | Keywords: heartless, individuality, occupy
«I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.»
Author: Isak Dinesen (Writer) | About: Women | Keywords: glorious, open to
«I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.»