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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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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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Notebook
Pleasure
Pains
Pain
Pens
Change
Pleasures
Discrimination
Perennial
Reasonable
Annuals
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Annual
Journey
Renewable

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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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We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
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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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Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.
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I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
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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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Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be shared.
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If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.
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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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One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.
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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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