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Isak Dinesen Quotes

There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself Picture Quote #1

Through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth Picture Quote #1

Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence Picture Quote #1

It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take their eyes Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

A poet’s mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy Picture Quote #1

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There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned Picture Quote #1

It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or to make the rifles go off, that the dream is declining, and turning into the nightmare, which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams Picture Quote #1

A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage Picture Quote #1

People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue. They also know that the real glory of dreams lies in their atmosphere of unlimited freedom. It is not the freedom of the dictator, who enforces his own will on the world, but the freedom of the artist, who has no will, who is free of will Picture Quote #1

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story Picture Quote #1

You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future Picture Quote #1

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best Picture Quote #1

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages Picture Quote #1

Where a pack of monkeys had traveled over the road, the smell of them lingered for a long time in the air, a dry and stale, mousy smell Picture Quote #1

The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control Picture Quote #1

I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them Picture Quote #1

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There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself (Isak Dinesen Quotes) Through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth (Isak Dinesen Quotes) Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence (Isak Dinesen Quotes) It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take their eyes (Isak Dinesen Quotes) 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 Quotes) A poet’s mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy (Isak Dinesen Quotes) There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned (Isak Dinesen Quotes) It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or to make the rifles go off, that the dream is declining, and turning into the nightmare, which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams (Isak Dinesen Quotes) A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage (Isak Dinesen Quotes) People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue. They also know that the real glory of dreams lies in their atmosphere of unlimited freedom. It is not the freedom of the dictator, who enforces his own will on the world, but the freedom of the artist, who has no will, who is free of will (Isak Dinesen Quotes) I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story (Isak Dinesen Quotes) You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future (Isak Dinesen Quotes) Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best (Isak Dinesen Quotes) If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages (Isak Dinesen Quotes) Where a pack of monkeys had traveled over the road, the smell of them lingered for a long time in the air, a dry and stale, mousy smell (Isak Dinesen Quotes) The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control (Isak Dinesen Quotes) I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them (Isak Dinesen Quotes)

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