Zitate von Tania Blixen

zitiert zum Beispiel von Fritzi Busch in Konkret 2006, S.61 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=qD08AQAAIAAJ&q=blixen
(Original dänisch: „Stor Kunst synes jeg ikke det er; jeg synes som [Oscar] Levertin at det, jeg søger i Digtning, er en Belysning af det, som Goldschmidt kalder: Livets Magi, - og det findes ikke hos Sigrid Undset, i det hele taget ingen Belysning; det er som et stort Landskab i bestandigt Graavejr og Garveløshed; Tryllestaven mangler, det er „kein Hexerei", og jeg siger sorn Otto Benzon (tror jeg), at virkelig Kunst er altid noget Hexerei.“ - nach Bernhard Glienke: „Fatale Präzedenz“ 1986, S.202 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=e7IrAAAAMAAJ&q=seger
Englisch: „Although I do not consider it great art: I think with Levertin that what I am looking for in imaginative writing is an illumination of what Goldschmidt calls: the magic of life,—and that is not to be found in Sigrid Undset, where there is really no illumination; it is like a great landscape that is constantly overcast and colorless; the magic wand is missing, it is "kein Hexerei," and I say with Otto Benzon (I think), that real art must always involve some witchcraft.“ - „Letters from Africa, 1914-1931“, edited by Frans Lasson, translated by Anne Born. Chicago UP 1981. p.181 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=OKhQAQAAIAAJ&q=Iexerei)

„Moderne Ehe und andere Betrachtungen“, Übersetzung Walter Boehlich, in: „Mottos meines Lebens“, Verlag: Rowohlt, ISBN 3-499-13190-0
(Dänisch: "Pendulet slaar ikke om og skifter Retning, fordi dets Retning er fundet at være forkert, men Uhret gaar, fordi Pendulet bevæger sig frem og tilbage." - „Moderne ægteskab og andre betragtninger“. Hier nach Caroline Carlsen, Frans Lasson: „Erindringer om Karen Blixen“ 1976, p.13 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=7UbkAAAAMAAJ&q=pendulet; in neuer Rechtschreibung in: „Samlede essays“, Gyldendal 1985, p.8 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=EDXkAAAAMAAJ&q=pendulet
Englisch: "The pendulum does not turn round and change direction because its direction is found to be the wrong one, but the clock works because the pendulum moves to and fro." - On Modern Marriage and Other Observations. Translated by Anne Born. Fourth Estate, 1987. p.34 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=3cEiAQAAMAAJ&q=pendulum)

Motto des autobiographischen Romans „Afrika - dunkel lockende Welt.“ Aus dem Englischen von Rudolf von Scholtz.
(in der englischen Originalausgabe „Out of Africa“ lateinisch: "Equitare, Arcum tendere, Veritatem dicere." - Penguin, PT7 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=UY67prSIuogC&pg=PT7
in der dänischen Originalausgabe „Den afrikanske Farm“: "At ride, at skyde med Bue og at tale Sandhed" - Gyldenhal, p.11 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=acxP5wBrv5oC&pg=PA11; zur Herkunft p.326 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=acxP5wBrv5oC&pg=PA326&dq=ride und Herodot 1,136.2)

Written of her experience with actress Marilyn Monroe in a letter to the American author, Fleur Cowles Meyer, in 1961. As quoted in Fragments, by Stanley Buchthal and Bernard Comment (2010)

"Babette's Feast"
Anecdotes of Destiny (1953)
Kontext: When later in life they thought of this evening it never occurred to any of them that they might have been exalted by their own merit. They realized that the infinite grace of which General Loewenhielm had spoken had been allotted to them, and they did not even wonder at the fact, for it had been but the fulfillment of an ever-present hope. The vain illusions of this earth had dissolved before their eyes like smoke, and they had seen the universe as it really is. They had been given one hour of the millennium.

Quelle: Out of Africa

As quoted in The Human Condition (1958) by Hannah Arendt. This appears as part of a statement in a 1957 interview where she speaks of a friend's comments about her:
I am not a novelist, really not even a writer; I am a storyteller. One of my friends said about me that I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them, and perhaps this is not entirely untrue. To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.
Interview with Bent Mohn in The New York Times Book Review (3 November 1957)
Paraphrased variant : All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story.

Quelle: Out of Africa

Quelle: Out of Africa

Out of Africa (1937)

Out of Africa (1937)

Letters from Africa: 1914-1931 (1981) edited by Frans Lasson, translated by Anne Born.