“I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with the dusk on the farm-roads, or the smoke on the plain. I begun in the evenings to write stories, fairy-tales, and romances, that would take my mind a long way off, to other countries and times.”
― Out of Africa
― Out of Africa
“In a world of fools, I was, I think, to him one of the greater fools.”
― Out of Africa
― Out of Africa
“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”
― Out of Africa
― Out of Africa
“It is an alarming experience to be, in your person, representing Christianity to the natives.”
― Out of Africa
― Out of Africa
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