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It never has happened, and it never will happen, and that is why it is told.

Anecdotes of Destiny - 1953 -

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God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

Quoted in obituaries - 7 September 1962.

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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.

Anecdotes of Destiny - 1953 - "Babette's Feast".

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When soon I sail from here, I may again run into such a storm as the one in Kvasefjord. But this time I shall clearly understand that it is not a play in the theatre, but it is death. and it seems too that then, in the last moment before we go down, I can in in all truth be yours...

Anecdotes of Destiny - 1953 - "Tempests".

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'Are you sure,' she asked, 'that it is God whom you serve?' The Cardinal looked up, met her eyes and smiled very gently. 'That,' he said, 'that, Madame, is a risk which the artists and the priests of this world have to run!'

Last Tales - 1957 - "The Cardinal's First Tale".

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I first began to tell tales to delight the world and make it wiser...

Anecdotes of Destiny - 1953 - "The Diver".

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The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.

Last Tales - 1957 - "The Cardinal's Third Tale".

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Of what happened later in the evening nothing definite can here be stated. None of the guests later on had any clear remembrance of it. They only knew that the rooms had been filled with a heavenly light, as if a number of small halos had blended into one glorious radiance. Taciturn old people received the gift of tongues; ears that for years had been almost deaf were opened to it. Time itself had merged into eternity. Long after midnight the windows of the house shone like gold, and golden song flowed out into the winter air.

Anecdotes of Destiny - 1953 - "Babette's Feast".

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Why, you are to become a story teller, and I shall give you the reasons! Hear then: Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence. Whether a small snotty lass understands it or not.

Last Tales - 1957 - "The Blank Page".

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Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90.

Shadows on the Grass - 1960.

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