## Metadata * Author: [[Karen Blixen]] * ASIN: B07QCGGJ6P * ISBN: B08GVGCV9Z * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QCGGJ6P ## Highlights civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, — location: [247](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07QCGGJ6P&location=247) ^ref-14885 --- the quality of old Poker-players, who do not mind if you overvalue or undervalue their hand, so long as you do not know its real nature. — location: [281](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07QCGGJ6P&location=281) ^ref-27038 --- made me reflect that perhaps they were, in life itself, within their own element, such as we can never be, like fishes in deep water which for the life of them cannot understand our fear of drowning. — location: [292](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07QCGGJ6P&location=292) ^ref-8660 ---