While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.
Isak DinesenTruth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.
Isak DinesenNo domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.
Isak Dinesen