Isak Dinesen

Quotes by Isak Dinesen

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Writer · Danish · 1885–1962

Danish writer (1885–1962)

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“In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing like a hidden physical defect.”
— Isak Dinesen
secrets secrecy

“Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.”
— Isak Dinesen
self knowledge

“When you have a great and difficult task something perhaps almost impossible if you only work a little at a time every day a little suddenly the work will finish itself.”
— Isak Dinesen
time