"Write a little every day, without hope, without…" — Isak Dinesen
"Write a little every day, without hope, without despair."
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87 Quotes by Isak Dinesen
Isak Dinesen has 87 quotes on this site.
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It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is…
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Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the…
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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…
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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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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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