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The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.

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Freya Stark
Age: 100 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 31
Died: 1993
Died: May 9
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Essayist
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Mountaineer
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Travel Writer
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Paris
France
Dame Freya Madeline Stark
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Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.
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Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.
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This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.
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In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists integrity alone can keep us truthful.
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Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
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words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.
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The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.
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I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.
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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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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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... 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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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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One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.
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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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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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youth looks at its world and age looks through it youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.
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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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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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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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