A great artist is never poor.
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I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.Isak Dinesen
You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my 'life has been wasted' here, or that I would exchange it with that of anyone I know.
Isak Dinesen
I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.
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A herd of elephant... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.
Isak Dinesen
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
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