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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
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Paris
France
Dame Freya Madeline Stark
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In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists integrity alone can keep us truthful.
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... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
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... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
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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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Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
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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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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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... 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 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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On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
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The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.
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Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.
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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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Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
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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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The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.
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Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.
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One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.
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It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.
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We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
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