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Quotes from Anecdotes of Destiny — Karen Blixen

1885–1962 Denmark

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It never has happened, and it never will happen, and that is why it is told.

Anecdotes of Destiny (1953)

The vain illusions of this earth had dissolved before their eyes like smoke, and they had seen the universe as it really is. They had been given one hour of the millennium.

Anecdotes of Destiny (1953)

Nobody has seen the trekking birds take their way towards such warmer spheres as do not exist, or rivers break their course through rocks and plains to run into an ocean which is not to be found. For God does not create a longing or a hope without having a fulfilling reality ready for them. But our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

Anecdotes of Destiny (1953)

I first began to tell tales to delight the world and make it wiser...

Anecdotes of Destiny (1953)

Taciturn old people received the gift of tongues; ears that for years had been almost deaf were opened to it. Time itself had merged into eternity. Long after midnight the windows of the house shone like gold, and golden song flowed out into the winter air.

Anecdotes of Destiny (1953)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Karen Blixen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.