Freya Stark Quotes

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.27, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

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  Adventure, World, Towns

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.

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  Good Day, Wine, Fire

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.147, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.

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  Travel, Behind You, Latches

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• This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.

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  Lying, Rivers, Imagination

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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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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  Real, Thinking, Alive

  Freya Stark (1974). “Letters: The furnace and the cup, 1914-30”

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• A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.

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  Art, Silence, Void

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.193, I.B.Tauris

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• One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.

  Freya Stark

  Differences, Healthy, Trying

  "Riding to the Tigris" by Freya Stark, quoted in "The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road" by Paul Theroux, McClelland & Stewart, (p. 226), July 12, 2011.

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• You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

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  Wise, Art, Travel

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• Risk is the salt and sugar of life.

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  Risk, Sugar, Salt

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• The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

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  Travel, Home, Feelings

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• I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving

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  People, Mind, Receiving

  Freya Stark (1974). “Letters: The furnace and the cup, 1914-30”

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• The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

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  Mistake, Belief, Fear Of Failure

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

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  Evil, Tolerance, May

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.137, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.

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  Passion, Soul, Passionate

  Freya Stark (1954). “Ionia: A Quest”, London : J. Murray

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• Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.

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  Zero, May, Manners

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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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  Wise, Waiting, Unexpectedness

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?

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  Broken, Miracle, World

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

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  Possibility

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.124, I.B.Tauris

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• This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

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  Doe, Desert, Accessories

  Freya Stark (2011). “Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq”, p.99, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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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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  Travel, Sea, Silence

  1948 Perseus in the Wind.

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• Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.

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  Discipline, Solitude, Ordinary

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• The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Untruthfulness, Advertising

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• it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.

  Freya Stark

  Regret, Employment, Might

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.

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  Cutting, Men, Winning

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.44, I.B.Tauris

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