It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself. . . Every time I have gone up in an aeroplane and looked down have realized I was free of the ground, I have had the consciousness of a new discovery. "I see:" I have thought, "This was the idea. And now I understand everything."
Isak DinesenTruth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.
Isak Dinesendeath - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.
Isak DinesenYour own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness, a caricature of yourself, which still lives on and appears to be, in some way, the truth about you. Even a flattering picture is... a lie.
Isak Dinesen