Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into… — 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.… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say:… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are always being made… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
some travelers are drawn forward by a goal lying before them in the way iron is drawn to the magnet. Others are… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I belong to an ancient, idle, wild and useless tribe, perhaps I am even one of the last members of it, who… — 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
Nobody has seen the trekking birds take their way towards such warmer spheres as do not exist, or rivers break their course… — 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
