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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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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
Integrity
Cannot
Become
Adaptability
Good
Fetters
Things
Origins
Valid
Alter
Perfectly

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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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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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This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.
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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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We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
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The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.
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The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.
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The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.
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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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