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There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned
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Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth. The habit of honoring one single instant of the universal process to the disadvantage of other instants has done more, perhaps, than anything to obfuscate the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux.
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I have been trying for a long time to understand God. Now I have made friends with him. To love him truly you must love change, and you must love a joke, these being the true inclinations of his own heart.
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When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.
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The true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is the sublime vision, which cannot be studied, but must ever be celestially granted. In the comic the gods see their own being reflected as in a mirror, and while the tragic poet is bound by strict laws, they will allow the comic artist a freedom as unlimited as their own.
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And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.
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And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa.
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There are times of great beauty on a coffee farm. When the plantation flowered in the beginning of the rains, it was a radiant sight, like a cloud of chalk, in the mist of the drizzling rain.
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It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or to make the rifles go off, that the dream is declining, and turning into the nightmare, which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams.
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I always have a difficult time making them believe that I intend everything as it's stated.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Karen Blixen
Born:
April 17, 1885
Died:
September 7, 1962
(aged 77)
Bio:
Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke, née Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author, also known by the pen name Isak Dinesen, who wrote works in Danish, French and English.
Known for:
Out of Africa (1937)
Seven Gothic Tales (1934)
Shadows of the Grass (1960)
Anecdotes of Destiny (1957)
Babette's Feast (1950)
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