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Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

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Freya Stark
Age: 100 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 31
Died: 1993
Died: May 9
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Essayist
Explorer
Mountaineer
Photographer
Travel Writer
Traveler
Writer
Paris
France
Dame Freya Madeline Stark
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Conventions
Commerce
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Relation
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A work of art is static and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.
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The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.
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I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.
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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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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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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
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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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Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
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All our acts have sacramental possibilities.
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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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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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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 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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One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.
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The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.
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I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.
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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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Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.
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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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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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