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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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  Race, Circles, Soul

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• I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.

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  Thinking, Age, Body

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• The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.

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  Weed, Flower, Thinking

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• Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.

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  Animal, Technology, Thinking

  Freya Stark (1969). “The zodiac arch”

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• We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.

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  Humility, Humble, Giving

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• advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.

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  Advertising, Disregard, Advertisements

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• Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.

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  Art, Travel, Journey

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

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• The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

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  War, Substitutes, Pacifist

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

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• What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.

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  Country, Being Yourself, Trying

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

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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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  Art, Law, Doors

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

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• The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.

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  Lying, Dark, Voice

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• Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.

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  Christmas, Home, Heart

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

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• ... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

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  Civilization, Decay, Matter

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• Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

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  Pain, Sorrow, Causes

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.124, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.

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  Years, Two, Yesterday

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

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• the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

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  Kindness, Fundamentals, Revolution

  Freya Stark (1969). “The zodiac arch”

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• Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; 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. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.

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  Inspirational, Sex, Children

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

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• There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.

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  Thinking, Land, Two

  Freya Stark (2011). “A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen”, p.144, The Overlook Press

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• Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.

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  Daughter, War, Sleep

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.113, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.

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  Silly, Animal, House

  Freya Stark (2011). “A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen”, p.121, The Overlook Press

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• ... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.

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  Nice, Home, Rushing

  Freya Stark (1978). “Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46”

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• The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.

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  Blank Mind, Knowing, Atmosphere

  Freya Stark (2011). “Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq”, p.11, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.

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  Doubt, Usual, Comfort

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

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• All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.

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  Dog, Horse, Children

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

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• Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing.

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  Timing, Trouble

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