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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.
Freya Stark
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Freya Stark
Age: 100 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 31
Died: 1993
Died: May 9
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Dame Freya Madeline Stark
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I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.
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... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
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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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There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
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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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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 the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.
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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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Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.
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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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I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving
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