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> [“Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words ‘straight’, ‘square’, and ‘flat’…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isak-dinesen/dr-sass-maintained-that-in-paradise-until-the-time-of-the-fall-the/)

[Isak Dinesen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isak-dinesen/)

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## Other authors on World Flat

## More by Isak Dinesen

> [The divine art is the story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isak-dinesen/the-divine-art-is-the-story/)

[Isak Dinesen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isak-dinesen/)

> [Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isak-dinesen/your-own-self-your-personality-and-existence-are-reflected-within-the/)

[Isak Dinesen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isak-dinesen/)

> [A great artist is never poor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isak-dinesen/a-great-artist-is-never-poor/)

[Isak Dinesen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isak-dinesen/)

> [To be a person is to have a story to tell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isak-dinesen/to-be-a-person-is-to-have-a-story-to-tell/)

[Isak Dinesen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isak-dinesen/)

> [One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isak-dinesen/one-does-not-travel-by-plane-one-is-merely-sent-like-a-parcel/)

[Isak Dinesen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isak-dinesen/)

> [When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. But we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isak-dinesen/when-we-are-young-the-idea-of-death-or-failure-is-intolerable-to-us/)

[Isak Dinesen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isak-dinesen/)

> [Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isak-dinesen/here-and-there-in-some-older-houses-old-faded-daguerreotypes-still/)

[Isak Dinesen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isak-dinesen/)

> [“It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose Native land you take. It is their past as well,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isak-dinesen/it-is-more-than-their-land-that-you-take-away-from-the-people-whose/)

[Isak Dinesen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isak-dinesen/)

> [There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isak-dinesen/there-was-a-place-in-the-hills-on-the-first-ridge-in-the-game-reserve/)

[Isak Dinesen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isak-dinesen/)

> [If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isak-dinesen/if-i-know-a-song-of-africa-of-the-giraffe-and-the-african-new-moon/)

[Isak Dinesen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isak-dinesen/)

> [People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isak-dinesen/people-who-dream-when-they-sleep-at-night-know-of-a-special-kind-of/)

[Isak Dinesen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isak-dinesen/)

> [All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isak-dinesen/all-sorrows-can-be-borne-if-you-can-put-them-into-a-story/)

[Isak Dinesen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isak-dinesen/)

> [the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isak-dinesen/the-true-art-of-the-gods-is-the-comic-the-comic-is-a-condescension-of/)

[Isak Dinesen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isak-dinesen/)

> [“Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isak-dinesen/dr-sass-maintained-that-in-paradise-until-the-time-of-the-fall-the/)

[Isak Dinesen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isak-dinesen/)

> [When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isak-dinesen/when-you-have-a-great-and-difficult-task-something-perhaps-almost/)

[Isak Dinesen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isak-dinesen/)

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