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Isak Dinesen has 93 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past…
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Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.
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There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.
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I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the…
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I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the…
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What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the…
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It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the…
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I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of…
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Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the…
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The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I…
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Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.
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The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent…
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my…
— William Blake
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There is no strong beer, just weak men
— Dan Castellaneta
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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
— Orison Swett Marden
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing…
— Marquis de Sade
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I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.
— James Lane Allen
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Only weak men want women to be weak.
— Anne Fortier
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What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat…
— Isak Dinesen
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life;…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Even weak men when united are powerful.
— Friedrich Schiller
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If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.
— Miuccia Prada
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Strong women only marry weak men.
— Bette Davis
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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
— Orison Swett Marden
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