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I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you.

I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you.

Isak Dinesen
Thinking, Deep Within, Flash

One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.

Isak Dinesen
God, Men, Liberty
Isak Dinesen (2011). “Last Tales”, p.170, Vintage

I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this sort of “religiousness” is the condition for real happiness.

Isak Dinesen
Real, Destiny, Thinking

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.

Isak Dinesen
Country, Fashion, Book
Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.1, Vintage

Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.

Isak Dinesen
Country, World, Might
Isak Dinesen (1963). “Out of Africa”

In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are always being made to carry out all the way from Europe, you read it as an author would like his book to be read, praying to God that he may have it in him to go on as beautifully as he has begun. Your mind runs, transported, upon a fresh deep green track.

Isak Dinesen
Running, Book, Reading

There are times of great beauty on a coffee farm. When the plantation flowered in the beginning of the rains, it was a radiant sight, like a cloud of chalk, in the mist of the drizzling rain.

Isak Dinesen
Rain, Coffee, Clouds
Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

I do not see eye to eye with the camera.

Isak Dinesen
Eye, Cameras
Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen (1990). “Shadows on the Grass”, p.43, Penguin UK

While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

Isak Dinesen
Failure, Ideas, Bears
Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.10, Vintage

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.

Isak Dinesen
Night, Ideas, Used
Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to meet.

Isak Dinesen
Rare Person, Growth, Hot
Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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