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Isak Dinesen Quotes

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Date of Birth:
April 17, 1885
Date of Death:
September 7, 1962
Nationality:
Danish
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Isak Dinesen

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A great artist is never poor.
Isak Dinesen

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Isak Dinesen

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Isak Dinesen

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
Isak Dinesen

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
Isak Dinesen

I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.
Isak Dinesen

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
Isak Dinesen

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
Isak Dinesen

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
Isak Dinesen

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.
Isak Dinesen


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