Quotes
“To be lonely is a state of mind, something completely other than physical solitude; when modern authors rant about the soul’s intolerable loneliness, it is only proof of their own intolerable emptiness.” – Out of Africa, 1937
"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea." – The Deluge at Norderney, Seven Gothic Tales, 1934
"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." – Out of Africa, 1937
"He belonged to the olden days, and I have never met another German who has given me so strong an impression of what Imperial Germany was and stood for." -- About General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German commander during the East Africa Campaign.
"Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost!" – "Babette's Feast", 1953
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