"I have read true piety defined as: loving……" — Isak Dinesen
"I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this sort of “religiousness” is the condition for real happiness."
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87 Quotes by Isak Dinesen
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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…
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What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite…
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It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier…
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I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the…
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Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering,…
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The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter…
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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…
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