Do you know a cure for me?”Why yes,” he said, “I know a cure for everything. Salt water.”Salt water?” I asked him.Yes,” he said, “in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the...

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.

The ideas of justice of Europe and Africa are not the same and those of the one world are unbearable to the other. To the African there is but one way of counter-balancing the catastrophes...

It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written...

All sorrows can be born if you put them in a story or tell a story about them.

Then Martine said: “So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?”Poor?” said Babette. She smiled as if to herself. “No, I shall never be poor. I told you that I am a great...

The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love the pride of my adversaries, of my servants, and my lover;...

Msabu’s bleeding. She does not have this ox. This lion is hungry. He does not have this ox. This wagon is heavy. It doesn’t have this ox. God is happy, msabu. He plays with us.

Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

The real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance. No sooner has he created a season of a year, or a time of the day, than he wishes...

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...

People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on...

The Kikuyu, when left to themselves, do not bury their dead, but leave them above ground for the hyenas and vultures to deal with. The custom had always appealed to me, I thought that it...

Là est la différence entre toi et moi. Le monde où tu vis est éclairé par tous les côtés par ta présence en son centre; mais moi il faut que je frotte chaque fois une...

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.

Der kom en vederkvægende ro, en dyb fred og fryd over mig, det var som når en feber ophører. “Her,” tænkte jeg, “kan jeg blive.

Within this enclosed women’s world, so to say, behind the walls and fortifications of it, I felt the presence of a great ideal, without which the garrison would not have carried on so gallantly; the...

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

Circumstances can have a motive force by which they bring about events without aid of human imagination or apprehension. On such occasions you yourself keep in touch with what is going on by attentively following...

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

religiousness” is the condition for real happiness.

Själva längtan är beviset på att det vi längtar efter finns.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings...

He conveyed a strange impression of being in safety, and completely secure. He had a courteous little manner with him, and smiled and nodded, as I pointed out the hills and the tall trees to...

Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.

Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the...

There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned