Исак Динесен

 

Има една известна мисъл, не може да не сте я срещали
Решението на всички проблеми е солената вода: пот, сълзи или море.
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

Принадлежи на Исак Динесен. Това не е име на мъж, това е псевдоним на известната датска писателка Karen Blixen (17.04.1885 – 7.09.1962) Голяма част от живота й преминава в Кения, в плантация за кафе близо до Найроби.
Най-известните й произведения са Out of Africa, Seven Gothic Tales,Shadows on the Grass, "Babette's Feast"

Portrait of Danish author Baroness Karen Christence Blixen-Finecke (1885 - 1962) who wrote under the pen name of Isak Dinesen

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. – Out of Africa, 1937
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
I know the cure for everything: Salt water...in one form or another: 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.[20]
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