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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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Freya Stark
Age: 100 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 31
Died: 1993
Died: May 9
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Essayist
Explorer
Mountaineer
Photographer
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Traveler
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Paris
France
Dame Freya Madeline Stark
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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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Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be shared.
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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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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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