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Isak Dinesen Quotes: It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings
         

It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings


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The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.



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You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.



I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.



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There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.



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A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage.



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

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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What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.



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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.



Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.





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