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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.

— Karen Blixen Anecdotes of Destiny (1953)

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I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.

Out of Africa (1937)

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred.

On Modern Marriage and Other Observations (1986)

The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.

Last Tales (1957)

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

Winter's Tales (1942)

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