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The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

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Freya Stark
Age: 100 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 31
Died: 1993
Died: May 9
Author
Essayist
Explorer
Mountaineer
Photographer
Travel Writer
Traveler
Writer
Paris
France
Dame Freya Madeline Stark
Things
World
Furnished
Room
Rooms
Full
Simple
Become
Many

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The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.
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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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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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every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.
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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.
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I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving
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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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