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We of the present day, who love our machines, cannot quite imagine how people in the old days could live without them. But we could not make the Atha… - Karen Blixen
" "We of the present day, who love our machines, cannot quite imagine how people in the old days could live without them. But we could not make the Athanasian Creed, or the technique of the Mass, or of a five-act tragedy, and perhaps not even of a sonnet. And if we had not found them there ready for our use, we should have had to do without them. Still we must imagine, since they have been made at all, that there was a time when the hearts of humanity cried out for those things, and when a deeply felt want was relieved when they were made.
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About Karen Blixen
Karen von Blixen-Finecke (17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962) was a Danish author; born Karen Christence Dinesen, she is also known under her pen name Isak Dinesen.
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Karen von Blixen-Finecke
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Isak Dinesen
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Tania Blixen
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Nemcsak a földjüket vesszük el azoktól, akiktől a szülőföldjüket elvesszük. A múltjukat is, a gyökerüket, identitásukat. Ha elvesszük tőlük azon dolgokat, amiknek látását megszokták s amiknek látására a jővőben is számítanak, nyugodtan elvehetjük a szemük világát is. Ez fokozottabban érvényes a primitív népekre, mint a civilizáltakra, mert az állat is visszavándorol messziről, számtalan veszélyen és szenvedésen át, hogy meglelje elvesztett identitását abban a környezetben, amelyet ismer.
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The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.
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