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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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  Love Of Learning, Deals, Pleasant

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• One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

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  Luck, Nuisance, Done

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• I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

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  People, Anvils, Virtue

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

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• On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

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  Art, Philosophy, Light

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

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• The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is.

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  Doors, Judging, People

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

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• The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.

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  Art, Wish, Fundamentals

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

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• Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.

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  Past, People, Cracks

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

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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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  Moving, Believe, Thinking

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• Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.

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  Order, Practice, Doe

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• The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

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  Art, Untruthfulness, Advertising

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• If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Faith

  Freya Stark (1974). “The Open Door, 1930-35”

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• The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

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  Love, Women, Stupid

  1934 The Valley of the Assassins.

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• An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.

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  Death, Acceptance, Successful

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.45, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them.

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  Past, Journey, History

  Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.32, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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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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  Peace, Produce, Universal

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

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

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  Regret, Employment, Might

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

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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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  Christmas, Home, Heart

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.61, I.B.Tauris

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• One life is an absurdly small allowance.

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  Life Is, Allowance

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• There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.

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  Generosity, Giving, Receiving

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• The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

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  Simple, World, Rooms

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• I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

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  Believe, Long, Our Words

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• Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

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  Curiosity, Invincible, One Thing

  Freya Stark (1977). “Bridge of the Levant 1940-43”

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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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  Acceptance, Personality, Style

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.33, I.B.Tauris

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• The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. 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 traveling brotherhood.

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  Life, Change, Art

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.110, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.

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  Christian, Practice, Giving

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

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