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We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.

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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
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Ease
Humble
Humility
Accept
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Risk is the salt and sugar of life.
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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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Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
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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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Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.
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words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.
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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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Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.
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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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The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.
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All our acts have sacramental possibilities.
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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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The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is.
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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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... 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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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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