"You know you are truly alive when you’re……" — Isak Dinesen
"You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions."
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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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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
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