“When soon I sail from here, I may again run into such a storm as the one in Kvasefjord. But this time I shall clearly understand that it is not a play in the theatre, but it is death. and it seems too that then, in the last moment before we go down, I can in in all truth be yours…”

—  Karen Blixen, book Anecdotes of Destiny

"Tempests"
Anecdotes of Destiny (1953)

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