~ Isak Dinesen Quotes ~

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Isak Dinesen Quotes


A Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen.
Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962), née Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen. She also wrote under the pen names Osceola and Pierre Andrézel. Blixen wrote works in both Danish and in English. 

Here are some famous quotes by Isak Dinesen. 

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

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In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing like a hidden physical defect.

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Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back in a second flowering at the age of 70 to 90.

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Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.

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I don't think that... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again; it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death.

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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.

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I think these 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 around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.