The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity. I was a … - Isak Dinesen

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Isak Dinesen

The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity. I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose; he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes.

Eye, Half, Landscape, Noses, Stand, Tranquillity

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If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?

Children, Know, Lying, Song

No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

Animal, Lost, People, Silence

I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest. . . pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.

Elephants, Forests, Native, Travelling, World

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.

Absurdity, Brave, Dangerous, Fantastic, Solution

I have been trying for a long time to understand God. Now I have made friends with him. To love him truly you must love change, and you must love a joke, these being the true inclinations of his own heart.

Heart, Long, Love, True, Trying, Understand