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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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Freya Stark
Age: 100 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 31
Died: 1993
Died: May 9
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Dame Freya Madeline Stark
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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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Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.
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Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
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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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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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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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I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
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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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All our acts have sacramental possibilities.
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The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.
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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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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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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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There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
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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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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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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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This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.
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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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If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.
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