I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them.
Isak DinesenI have read true piety defined as: loving oneโs destiny unconditionally โ and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this sort of โreligiousnessโ is the condition for real happiness.
Isak DinesenIt is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings
Isak Dinesenthrough the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth
Isak DinesenPeople who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue. They also know that the real glory of dreams lies in their atmosphere of unlimited freedom. It is not the freedom of the dictator, who enforces his own will on the world, but the freedom of the artist, who has no will, who is free of will.
Isak Dinesen