Karen Blixen Quotes
Best Seven Gothic Tales Quotes by Karen Blixen
Seven Gothic Tales Quotes
“For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.”
“The cure for anything is salt water: tears, sweat or the sea.”
“The real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance. No sooner has he created a season of a year, or a time of the day, than he wishes for something quite different, and sweeps it all away.
No sooner was one a young man, and happy at that, than the nature of things would rush one into marriage, martyrdom or old age. And human beings cleave to the existing state of things.
All their lives they are striving to hold the moment fast. Their art itself is nothing but the attempt to catch by all means the one particular moment, one light, the momentary beauty of one woman or one flower, and make it everlasting.”
“Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.”
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