I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!
Isak DinesenYou must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted" here, or that I would exchange it with that of anyone I know.
Isak Dinesendeath - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.
Isak Dinesen