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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Freya Stark

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Freya Stark
Age: 100 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 31
Died: 1993
Died: May 9
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Essayist
Explorer
Mountaineer
Photographer
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Paris
France
Dame Freya Madeline Stark
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words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.
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Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be shared.
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... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.
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If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.
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I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
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Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.
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Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.
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The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.
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... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.
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The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.
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One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.
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Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.
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I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.
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I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.
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every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.
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What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.
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Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.
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We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.
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Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
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