“ 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. Isak Dinesen
“ In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing like a hidden physical defect. Isak Dinesen
“ I don't think that ... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death.... Isak Dinesen
“ After a little while you became aware of how still it was out here. Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel like it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from… Isak Dinesen
“ I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no i… Isak Dinesen
“ 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. Isak Dinesen
“ I think these 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 around worrying about are of… Isak Dinesen
“ Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest. Isak Dinesen
“ 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 whats… Isak Dinesen
“ When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they a… Isak Dinesen
“ 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. Isak Dinesen
“ I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them. Isak Dinesen
“ The true aristocracy and the true proletariat of the world are both in understanding with tragedy. To them it is the fundamental principle of God, and the key,—the minor key,—to existence. They differ… Isak Dinesen
“ After being told that the Professor “found it possible to believe for a moment in the existence of God,” Isak thought, “Has it been possible to God, at Mount Elgon, to believe for a moment in the exis… Isak Dinesen
“ It is an alarming experience to be, in your person, representing Christianity to the natives. Isak Dinesen
