Karen Blixen

“In a world of fools, I was, I think, to him one of the greater fools.”

— Karen Blixen

“The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I…

— Karen Blixen

“Within this enclosed women's world, so to say, behind the walls and fortifications of it, I felt the presence of a great…

— Karen Blixen

“Between the river in the mellow English landscape and the African mountain ridge, ran the path of this life. ... The bowstring…

— Karen Blixen

“I general brzo isprazni čašu. Jer kamo razuman čovjek može pobjeći kad ne može vjerovati u svoj razum? Bolje biti pijan nego…

— Karen Blixen

“Up at Meru I saw a young Native girl with a bracelet on, a leather strap two inches wide, and embroidered all…

— Karen Blixen

“Still, we often talked on the farm of the Safaris that we had been on. Camping places fix themselves in your mind…

— Karen Blixen

If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows…

— Karen Blixen

“Gud skapte mannen før kvinnen. Det er sånn som når jeg skriver. Først kladder jeg.”

— Karen Blixen

“Where, My Lord, is music bred—upon the instrument or within the ear that listens? The loveliness of woman is created in the…

— Karen Blixen

“Quando gli dei vogliono punirci, avverano i nostri desideri.”

— Karen Blixen

“Hard and cruel though it may seem," said the Cardinal, "yet we, who hold our high office as keepers and watchmen to…

— Karen Blixen

“The views were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequealled nobility.”

— Karen Blixen

“I have conquered them all, but I am standing amongst graves”

— Karen Blixen

“The ideas of justice of Europe and Africa are not the same and those of the one world are unbearable to the…

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“No,” he said after a pause, “the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the…

— Karen Blixen

“He conveyed a strange impression of being in safety, and completely secure. He had a courteous little manner with him, and smiled…

— Karen Blixen

“The sky was rarely more than pale blue or violet, with a profusion of mighty, weightless, ever-changing clouds towering up and sailing…

— Karen Blixen

“Perhaps to them the first condition for anything having real charm was this: that it must not really exist.”

— Karen Blixen

“[Natives] are also on friendly terms with time, and the plan of beguiling or killing it does not come into their heads.…

— Karen Blixen

“Circumstances can have a motive force by which they bring about events without aid of human imagination or apprehension. On such occasions…

— Karen Blixen

“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”

— Karen Blixen

“The Kikuyu, when left to themselves, do not bury their dead, but leave them above ground for the hyenas and vultures to…

— Karen Blixen

“I turned to the animal world from the world of men; my heart was heavy with the tragedy of the night.”

— Karen Blixen

“The real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance. No sooner has he created a…

— Karen Blixen