While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.
Isak DinesenI have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong.
Isak DinesenCoffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.
Isak DinesenThere are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned
Isak DinesenIn 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.
Isak Dinesen