“Within this enclosed women's world, so to say, behind the walls and fortifications of it, I felt the presence of a great ideal, without which the garrison would not have carried on so gallantly; the idea of a Millennium when… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
“In a world of fools, I was, I think, to him one of the greater fools.” — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
“The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
“Within this enclosed women's world, so to say, behind the walls and fortifications of it, I felt the presence of a great ideal, without… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
“Between the river in the mellow English landscape and the African mountain ridge, ran the path of this life. ... The bowstring was released… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
“I general brzo isprazni čašu. Jer kamo razuman čovjek može pobjeći kad ne može vjerovati u svoj razum? Bolje biti pijan nego lud.” — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
“Up at Meru I saw a young Native girl with a bracelet on, a leather strap two inches wide, and embroidered all over with… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
“Still, we often talked on the farm of the Safaris that we had been on. Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
“Gud skapte mannen før kvinnen. Det er sånn som når jeg skriver. Først kladder jeg.” — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
“Where, My Lord, is music bred—upon the instrument or within the ear that listens? The loveliness of woman is created in the eye of… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
“Hard and cruel though it may seem," said the Cardinal, "yet we, who hold our high office as keepers and watchmen to the story,… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
