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Baroness Karen Blixen
(17 Apr 1885 - 1962)
Danish writer who also used a pen name, Isak Dinesen. Her description of her life in Kenya, in the book Out of Africa (1937), also became well-known as a movie.
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Science Quotes by Baroness Karen Blixen (2)
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
— Baroness Karen Blixen
Quoted in Reader's Digest (Apr 1964). In M. P. Singh, Quote Unquote (2007), 94.
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
— Baroness Karen Blixen
'The Dreamers', Seven Gothic Tales (1943), 332.
