To die for the one you loved was an effort too sweet for words. - Karen Blixen

I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this sort of “religiousness” is the condition for real happiness.

The young (Somali) women were very inquisitive as to European customs, and listened attentively to descriptions of the manners, education, and clothes of white ladies, as if out to complete their strategic education with the knowledge of how the males of an alien race were conquered and subdued.

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.