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Quotes from Winter's Tales — Karen Blixen

1885–1962 Denmark

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Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

Winter's Tales (1942)

Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.

Winter's Tales (1942)

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.

Winter's Tales (1942)

Attribution

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