I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you... — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness,… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. But we… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose Native land you take. It is their past as well,… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought… — Isak Dinesen 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… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
