WIST Quotations

Dinesen, Isak -- “The Deluge at Norderney,” Seven Gothic Tales [Kasparson] (1934)

Dave — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 15:24:16 +0000

Few people can say of themselves that they are free of the belief that this world which they see around them is in reality the work of their own imagination. Are we pleased with it, proud of it, then?

Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) Danish writer [pseud. of Karen Christence, Countess Blixen]
“The Deluge at Norderney,” Seven Gothic Tales [Kasparson] (1934)
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Dinesen, Isak -- “The Deluge at Norderney,” Seven Gothic Tales [Miss Malin] (1934)

Dave — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 17:17:28 +0000

I walked in the woods and looked at the birds, and I thought: How dreadful that people shut up birds in cages. If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages, they should all be free —

Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) Danish writer [pseud. of Karen Christence, Countess Blixen]
“The Deluge at Norderney,” Seven Gothic Tales [Miss Malin] (1934)
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Dinesen, Isak -- “The Old Chevalier,” Seven Gothic Tales (1934)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

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 (1885-1962) Danish writer [pseud. of Karen Christence, Countess Blixen]
“The Old Chevalier,” Seven Gothic Tales (1934)
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Dinesen, Isak -- “The Supper at Elsinore,” Seven Gothic Tales (1934)

Dave — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:03:21 +0000

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the word of the Lord is to the soul.

Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) Danish writer [pseud. of Karen Christence, Countess Blixen]
“The Supper at Elsinore,” Seven Gothic Tales (1934)
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Dinesen, Isak -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

All things can be cured by salt water: sweat, tears, or the ocean.

Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) Danish writer [pseud. of Karen Christence, Countess Blixen]
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Dinesen, Isak -- Out of Africa, Part 1 “Kamante and Lulu,” “The Ngong Farm” (1937)

Dave — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:03:23 +0000

I had seen a herd of Elephant traveling through dense Native forest, where the sunlight is strewn down between the thick creepers in small spots and patches, pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.

Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) Danish writer [pseud. of Karen Christence, Countess Blixen]
Out of Africa, Part 1 “Kamante and Lulu,” “The Ngong Farm” (1937)
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Dinesen, Isak -- Out of Africa, Part 1 (1937)

Dave — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:18:49 +0000

I had time after time watched the progression across the plain of the Giraffe, in their queer, inimitable, vegetative gracefulness, as if it were not a herd of animals but a family of rare, long-stemmed, speckled gigantic flowers slowly advancing.

Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) Danish writer [pseud. of Karen Christence, Countess Blixen]
Out of Africa, Part 1 (1937)
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