Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.
Karen BlixenGud skapte mannen før kvinnen. Det er sånn som når jeg skriver. Først kladder jeg.
Karen BlixenThe real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance. No sooner has he created a season of a year, or a time of the day, than he wishes for something quite different, and sweeps it all away. No sooner was one a young man, and happy at that, than the nature of things would rush one into marriage, martyrdom or old age. And human beings cleave to the existing state of things. All their lives they are striving to hold the moment fast....Their art itself is nothing but the attempt to catch by all means the one particular moment, one light, the momentary beauty of one woman or one flower, and make it everlasting.
Karen BlixenTags: change human-and-divine
I general brzo isprazni čašu. Jer kamo razuman čovjek može pobjeći kad ne može vjerovati u svoj razum? Bolje biti pijan nego lud.
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It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or to make the rifles go off, that the dream is declining, and turning into the nightmare, which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams.
Karen BlixenTags: fear consciousness freedom dreams nightmares
Själva längtan är beviset på att det vi längtar efter finns.
Karen BlixenTags: longing
It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.
Karen BlixenTags: shakespeare
Quando gli dei vogliono punirci, avverano i nostri desideri.
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Circumstances can have a motive force by which they bring about events without aid of human imagination or apprehension. On such occasions you yourself keep in touch with what is going on by attentively following it from moment to moment, like a blind person who is being led, and who places one foot in front of the other cautiously but unwittingly. Things are happening to you, and you feel them happening, but except for this one fact, you have no connection with them, and no key to the cause or meaning of them. [...] - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.
Karen BlixenTags: imagination life experience events
The views were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequealled nobility.
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