through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky,… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message,… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I arrived at the conviction that we should, more easily and more thoroughly than we now do or ever have done, understand… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the… — 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
