Isak Dinesen
“The Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.”
“Difficult times have helped me to understand how infinitely rich and beautiful life is.”
“The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.”
“Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart.”
“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”
“God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.”
“When you have a great and difficult task, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.”
“I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.”
“All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story.”
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”