Quotes: Karen Blixen

– "I don't think you can see at home how much you need to get away from all the things you've wrapped up in difficulties. You think you know what a journey can offer, but that is precisely what you don't know, and I often think, then, that something new, almost anything at all, is inestimable." 

–– Isak Dinesen, pen name of Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (1885-1962), Danish writer

Karen Blixen to Ingeborg Dinesen, dated January 18, 1917. Danish author Karen Blixen, a.k.a. Isak Dinesen, wrote Out of Africa and Babette's Feast.