Karen Blixen Browse All Authors Top 13 quotes by Karen Blixen The earth was made round so we would not see too far down the road. Karen Blixen The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. Karen Blixen salt sweat tears sea water When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. Karen Blixen day you work time Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does. Karen Blixen than us who silence Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. Karen Blixen me rich beautiful life If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Karen Blixen me coffee moon song I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots. Karen Blixen i-believe nature evil believe Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. Karen Blixen business age love life All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. Karen Blixen about story tell you When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them. Karen Blixen day look learning time I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them. Karen Blixen think women people world God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. Karen Blixen road down god world A great artist is never poor. Karen Blixen never great poor artist
