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Isak Dinesen Quotes
Brief author info: Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) Danish writer (Karen Blixen) Novelist, short story writer, and essayist. For many years, lived in East Africa (now Kenya), where she gained much inspiration, expressed most notably in book Out of Africa.
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Men and women are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
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.
While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.
God made the world round so we could never see too far down the road.
We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power; it should close up, when we leave it, without a trace.
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.
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Diplomacy Quote
There are times when even the greatest tactician in diplomatic cunning is outclassed in his own game. It is then that he discovers that all that he thought he had gained is but loss, and that what is left of national honor and dignity is but the shadow of an illustrious past that is gone forever, or of a potentially great future that will never come.
Wisdom Quote
Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.
Wisdom Quote
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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