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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.

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
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Paris
France
Dame Freya Madeline Stark
Nothing
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Universe
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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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