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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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  Art, Men, Law

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Winter's Tales”, p.56, Vintage

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

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  God, Men, Liberty

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Last Tales”, p.170, Vintage

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• I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this sort of “religiousness” is the condition for real happiness.

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  Real, Destiny, Thinking

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• During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.

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  Country, Fashion, Book

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.1, Vintage

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• Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.

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  Country, World, Might

  Isak Dinesen (1963). “Out of Africa”

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• In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are always being made to carry out all the way from Europe, you read it as an author would like his book to be read, praying to God that he may have it in him to go on as beautifully as he has begun. Your mind runs, transported, upon a fresh deep green track.

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  Running, Book, Reading

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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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  Rain, Coffee, Clouds

  Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

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• I do not see eye to eye with the camera.

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  Eye, Cameras

  Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen (1990). “Shadows on the Grass”, p.43, Penguin UK

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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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  Night, Ideas, Used

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

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  Failure, Ideas, Bears

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.10, Vintage

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• In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to meet.

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  Rare Person, Growth, Hot

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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