Karen Blixen Quotes
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.
It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.
I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.
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.
There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned
Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.
Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.
Do you know a cure for me?""Why yes, " he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water.""Salt water?" I asked him."Yes, " he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.
Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.