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The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

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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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Catches
Waiting
Altogether
Women
Corner
Live
Round
Even
Rounds
Every
Corners
Life
Avoid
Unexpectedness
Refuse
Unawares

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Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
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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 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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Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.
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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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Few - very few - of our attainments are so profound that they are valid for always even if they are so, they need adjustment, a straightening here, a loosening there, like an old garment to be fitted to the body.
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