A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee … - Isak Dinesen
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee …
- Isak Dinesen
Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind. - Isak Dinesen
Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.
I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. - Isak Dinesen
I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
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… - Isak Dinesen
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…
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 … - Isak Dinesen
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 …
Here I am, where I am supposed to be. - Isak Dinesen
Here I am, where I am supposed to be.
To be a person is to have a story to tell. - Isak Dinesen
To be a person is to have a story to tell.
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. - Isak Dinesen
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. - Isak Dinesen
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
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