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Isak Dinesen Quotes and Quotations
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect. I don't think that... one gets a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there within you, and it will come as certainly as death. Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest. God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. I don't think that ... one gets a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there within you, and it will come as certainly as death.... I think these 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 one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. 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 work will finish itself. I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90. |