Karen Blixen

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• I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.

  Out of Africa (1937), First lines.

• All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

  Interview with Bent Mohn in The New York Times Book Review (3 November 1957)

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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