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The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

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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
Travel Writer
Traveler
Writer
Paris
France
Dame Freya Madeline Stark
Everywhere
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Travel
Perhaps
Feeling
Feelings
True
Home
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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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I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.
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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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monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.
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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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words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.
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To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.
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Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
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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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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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Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.
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I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
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I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.
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To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense
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The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.
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