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I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.

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Night, Thinking, Voice

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

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On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.

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Self, Hands, Would Be

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

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From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.

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Sorrow, Divine, Streams

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

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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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Art, Lying, Clouds

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

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In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

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Integrity, Truthful, Conscious

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

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not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.

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Fashion, Artist, Hands

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... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.

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Light, Dust, Joy

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words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.

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

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All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be.

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Humility, Greatness, Style

Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.84, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.

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World, Littles, Reconcile

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To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.

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Moving, Heart, Thinking

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

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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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Profound, Needs, Body

Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.86, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.

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Laughing, Arses, Maps

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The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.

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Impact, Order, Two

freya stark (1969). “the zodiac arch”

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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

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Art, Ingredients, Absence

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

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I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.

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Thinking, Numbers, Preparation

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The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

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Fashion, Art, Garden

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Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.

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Body, Poor, Arteries

Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.211, I.B.Tauris

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Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.

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Fairness, Influential, Unfair

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I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered.

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Self, Grace, Rich

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

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... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.

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Thinking, Government, Civilization

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The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.

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Land, Unhappy, Substance

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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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People, Arabia, Levels

Freya Stark (2011). “A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen”, p.92, The Overlook Press

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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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Believe, Hands, Voice

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

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Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.

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Space, Silence, Style

Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.50, I.B.Tauris

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Born: January 31, 1893
Died: May 9, 1993
Occupation: Explorer
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