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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2041/">Quotes by <em>Dinesen, Isak</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Karen von Blixen-Finecke (April 17, 1885 September 7, 1962), born Dinesen, was a Danish author also known under her pen name Isak Dinesen. Blixen wrote works both in Danish and in English. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of living in Kenya, Out of Africa, and a film based on one of her stories, Babette's Feast. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"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."

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"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."

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"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea."

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"The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, teats, or the sea."

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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."

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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."

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