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Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be shared.
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
Travel Writer
Traveler
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Paris
France
Dame Freya Madeline Stark
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Style
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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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One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.
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I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered.
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The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.
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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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We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
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The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.
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The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.
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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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Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.
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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 unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.
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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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Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
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All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be.
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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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A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.
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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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every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.
Freya Stark
... 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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