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Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.
Freya Stark
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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
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Paris
France
Dame Freya Madeline Stark
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Body
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Humans
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Words
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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 symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.
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We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.
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Risk is the salt and sugar of life.
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monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.
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The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
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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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What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.
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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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To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense
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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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... 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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youth looks at its world and age looks through it youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.
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Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.
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There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
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The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.
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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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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 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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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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