Quotes from book
Winter's Tales

Winter's Tales
Karen Blixen
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“Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.”

Karen Blixen book Winter's Tales

"Sorrow-Acre"
Winter's Tales (1942)

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“Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.”

Karen Blixen book Winter's Tales

"A Consolatory Tale"
Winter's Tales (1942)

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“Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.”

Karen Blixen book Winter's Tales

"The Invincible Slave-owners"
Winter's Tales (1942)

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