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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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Isak Dinesen
#Inspirational Quotes
#Life Quotes
#Beautiful Quotes
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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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Isak Dinesen
#World Quotes
#Able Quotes
#Live In The Present Quotes
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“Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.”
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Isak Dinesen
#Coffee Quotes
#Soul Quotes
#Body Quotes
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“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
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Isak Dinesen
#Encouragement Quotes
#Beach Quotes
#Ocean Quotes
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“Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.”
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Isak Dinesen
#Morning Quotes
#Heart Quotes
#Air Quotes
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“All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story.”
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Isak Dinesen
#Suffering Quotes
#Stories Quotes
#Bearable Quotes
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“You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.”
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Isak Dinesen
#Past Quotes
#Worry Quotes
#Ruins Quotes
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“I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.”
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Isak Dinesen
#Feet Quotes
#Hills Quotes
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“Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.”
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Isak Dinesen
#Men Quotes
#Keys Quotes
#Two Quotes
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“Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.”
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Isak Dinesen
#Writing Quotes
#Despair Quotes
#Littles Quotes
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“To be a person is to have a story to tell.”
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Isak Dinesen
#Stories Quotes
#Public Speaking Quotes
#Storytelling Quotes
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“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.”
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Isak Dinesen
#Perseverance Quotes
#Time Quotes
#Women Quotes
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“Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I asked him. Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
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Isak Dinesen
#Sea Quotes
#Sweat Quotes
#Water Quotes
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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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Isak Dinesen
#Wine Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Men Quotes
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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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Isak Dinesen
#Wine Quotes
#People Quotes
#Drunk Quotes
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“Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.”
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Isak Dinesen
#Tailors Quotes
#Truth Is Quotes
#Lord Quotes
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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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Isak Dinesen
#Brave Quotes
#Fantastic Quotes
#Dangerous Quotes
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“I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.”
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Isak Dinesen
#Useless Quotes
#Tribes Quotes
#Ancient Quotes
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“It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings”
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Isak Dinesen
#Lying Quotes
#Sake Quotes
#Christ Quotes
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“I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.”
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Isak Dinesen
#Paris Quotes
#Splendor Quotes
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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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Isak Dinesen
#Strong Quotes
#Father Quotes
#Passion Quotes
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“The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In a little while on all sides the Cicada would begin to sing. The grass was me , and the air, the distant invisible mountains were me, the tired oxen were me. I breathed with the slight night-wind in the thorn trees.”
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Isak Dinesen
#Tired Quotes
#Night Quotes
#Air Quotes
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“We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.”
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Isak Dinesen
#Mark Quotes
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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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Isak Dinesen
#Heart Quotes
#Artist Quotes
#Long Quotes
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“Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90”
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Isak Dinesen
#Teenage Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Flowering Quotes
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“I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!”
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Isak Dinesen
#Grandmother Quotes
#People Quotes
#Want Quotes
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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. . . Every time I have gone up in an aeroplane and looked down have realized I was free of the ground, I have had the consciousness of a new discovery. "I see:" I have thought, "This was the idea. And now I understand everything."”
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Isak Dinesen
#Discovery Quotes
#Ideas Quotes
#Joy Quotes
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“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.”
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Isak Dinesen
#Believe Quotes
#Evil Quotes
#Ants Quotes
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“There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned”
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Isak Dinesen
#Concerned Quotes
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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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Isak Dinesen
#Caught Quotes
#Rhythm Quotes
