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Karen Blixen

Out of Africa

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  • Аннаhas quoted6 years ago
    A white man who wanted to say a pretty thing to you would write: “I can never forget you.” The African says: “We do not think of you, that you can ever forget us.”
  • Habitante de librohas quoted5 years ago
    We walked together from the one thing on the farm to the other, naming them as we passed them, one by one, as if we were taking mental stock of my loss, or as if Ingrid were, on my behalf, collecting material for a book of complaints to be laid before destiny.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted5 years ago
    I had seen him only a short time ago, standing bare-headed in the afternoon sun, gazing out over the land, and lifting his field-glasses to find out everything about it. He had taken in the country, and in his eyes and his mind it had been changed, marked by his own individuality, and made part of him. Now Africa received him, and would change him, and make him one with herself.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted5 years ago
    You must turn your mournful ditty
    To a merry measure,
    I will never come for pity,
    I will come for pleasure.”
  • Habitante de librohas quoted5 years ago
    The custom had always appealed to me, I thought that it would be a pleasant thing to be laid out to the sun and the stars, and to be so promptly, neatly and openly picked and cleansed; to be made one with Nature and become a common component of a landscape.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted5 years ago
    Something within him makes him run away from the snake as from the devil, and that is what is called the voice of conscience
  • Habitante de librohas quoted5 years ago
    The man who can caress a snake can do anything
  • Habitante de librohas quoted5 years ago
    The wild animals, your Excellency, are perhaps a proof of the existence of God.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted5 years ago
    In other words, since we are all prisoners in life, are we happier, or more miserable, the more talents we possess?”
  • Habitante de librohas quoted5 years ago
    As to us, we shall have to find someone badly transgressing against us, before we can in decency ask the Giraffes to forgive us our transgressions against them.
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