Karen Blixen Short Quotes

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Who then tells a finer tale than any of us? Silence does.

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The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.

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The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred.

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Dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.

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One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.

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It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

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I first began to tell tales to delight the world and make it wiser...

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My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady...

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I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.

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It never has happened, and it never will happen, and that is why it is told.

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

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All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

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Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.

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Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.

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Life and Death are two locked caskets, each of which contains the key to the other.

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One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.

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It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.

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Death—a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.

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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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I always have a difficult time making them believe that I intend everything as it's stated.

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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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There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned

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Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

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

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But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

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If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

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I have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong.

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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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Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.

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