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The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.

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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
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Land
Greater
Chooses
Care
Symbol
Without
Symbols
Great
Visible
Substance
Unhappy

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Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
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Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.
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words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.
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