Dinesen, Isak(pseudonym of Baroness Karen Blixen)

Danish author

wrote story collection "Seven Gothic Tales" 1934, autobiographical novel "Out of Africa" 1938

• "I think these 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 around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."
• "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."
• "Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other."