Karen Blixen Quotes
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The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred.
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The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.
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The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
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I have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong.
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Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.
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All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
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It never has happened, and it never will happen, and that is why it is told.
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Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated, and the Natives neither confounded the persons nor divided the substance.
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My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady...
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In a foreign country and with foreign species of life one should take measures to find out whether things will be keeping their value when dead. To settlers I give this advice: 'For the sake of your eyes and hearts, shoot not the Iguana.'
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I first began to tell tales to delight the world and make it wiser...