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I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
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
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Travel Writer
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Paris
France
Dame Freya Madeline Stark
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Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.
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... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.
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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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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 - very few - of our attainments are so profound that they are valid for always even if they are so, they need adjustment, a straightening here, a loosening there, like an old garment to be fitted to the body.
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One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.
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Risk is the salt and sugar of life.
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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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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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This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.
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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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