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Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen. 45,233 ratings, 3.91 average rating, 2,769 reviews. Out of Africa Quotes Showing 1-30 of 78. “You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”. ― Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa. tags: adventure, africa, life.
“Here I am, where I ought to be.” ― Isak Dinesen, quote from Out of Africa. Copy text. “The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek.
Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer’s paradise, a hunter’s Valhalla, an escapist’s Utopia. It is what you will, and it withstands all interpretations. Quotes Interpret. In Africa, you learn to watch the world like the native Africans do – with patience and silence.
At the end of the book when the narrator is forced to leave the farm, the tale turns into a tragic account of paradise lost. Explanation of the famous quotes in Out of Africa, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.
Quotes from Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa. Learn the important quotes in Out of Africa and the chapters they're from, including why they're important and what they mean in the context of the book.
Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi.
The Out of Africa Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you. Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes.