But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.
Isak DinesenThe present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose; he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes.
Isak Dinesen