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“You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.”

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Ovid, born on March 20, 43 BC and died in 1 BC, was a renowned Roman poet of the ancient world. His works are diverse, including love poems, mythological poems, and satirical poems, with 'Metamorphoses' being his most famous work. more

“When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. But we have also an unconquerable faith in our own stars, and in the impossibility of anything venturing to go against us. As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things, but then we do not much mind what happens to us one way or the other. In this way a balance is obtained.”

Way Mind Believe Ideas Happens Young Turns Stars Grows Generations Possibility Youth Bears Balance One Way Ridicule Impossibility Unconquerable

Author:Isak Dinesen

“If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.”

Ifs World Should Animal Bird Animal Rights Cages

Author:Isak Dinesen

“Where a pack of monkeys had traveled over the road, the smell of them lingered for a long time in the air, a dry and stale, mousy smell.”

Long Air Long Time Smell Dry Packs Traveled Monkeys Stale

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.”

Ifs World Ends Forests Native Elephants End Of The World Herds Appointments Dense Pacing

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“I had seen a herd of Buffalo, one hundred and twenty-nine of them, come out of the morning mist under a copper sky, one by one, as if the dark and massive, iron-like animals with the mighty horizontally swung horns were not approaching, but were being created before my eyes and sent out as they were finished.”

Ifs Eye Dark Animal Morning Sky Hundred Twenties Finished Nine Iron Massive Horns Mist Herds Buffalo Copper Morning Mist

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“The flamingoes are the most delicately colored of all the African birds, pink and red like a flying twig of an oleander bush. They have incredibly long legs and bizarre and recherché curves of their necks and bodies, as if from some exquisite traditional prudery they were making all attitudes and movements in life as difficult as possible.”

Ifs Long Body Difficult Attitude Movement Bird Red Legs Flying Traditional Necks Bizarre Curves Exquisite Twigs Long Legs Oleanders

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are always being made to carry out all the way from Europe, you read it as an author would like his book to be read, praying to God that he may have it in him to go on as beautifully as he has begun. Your mind runs, transported, upon a fresh deep green track.”

Way Mind May Made Book Running Reading Goes On Praying Picks Europe Green Track Ships Book Reading Praying To God Worth Reading

Author:Isak Dinesen

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