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To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense

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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
Feel
Feels
Real
Always
Surely
Think
Alive
Thinking
Learn
Sense
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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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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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words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.
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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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... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.
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There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
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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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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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I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.
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Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.
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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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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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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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Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.
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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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The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.
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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 true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.
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Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.
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