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words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.

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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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Words
Lives

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every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.
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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 can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
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Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
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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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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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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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To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense
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... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.
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I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.
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The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.
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The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
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Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.
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... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.
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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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Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
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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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All our acts have sacramental possibilities.
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The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.
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The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.
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