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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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  Association, Silent, Significance

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.49, I.B.Tauris

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• Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

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  Integrity, Adaptability, Fetters

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

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• I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

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  Hate, Book, Wife

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• Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

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  Coins, Way, Easy

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

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• Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different point, and repaying this loving study, if it is anything of a mountain at all, by a gradual revelation of personality, an increase of significance.

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  Views, Personality, Mountain

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

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• youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.

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  Luck, Age, Looks

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• I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.

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  New York, Erosion, Sky

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

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• We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.

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  Tree, Magic, Sap

  Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.170, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.

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  Thinking, Looks, World

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• Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.

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  Change, Wise, Men

  Freya Stark (1969). “The zodiac arch”

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• Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral.

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  Real, Fairs

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.17, I.B.Tauris

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• This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.

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  Integrity, Excellence, Sake

  freya stark (1969). “the zodiac arch”

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• It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.

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  Depressing, Art, Evil

  Freya Stark (2011). “Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq”, p.159, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• ... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.

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  Eye, Impact, Blue

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• Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.

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  Effort, Berries, Matter

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

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• monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

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  Boredom, Bed, Coffins

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.111, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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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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  Sex, Love Is, Roots

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

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• I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.

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  People, Moral, Aim

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• It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.

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  Peace, War, Exercise

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

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• Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.

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  Divorce, Everyday, Ordinary

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

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• Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

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  Intellectual, Dare

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.29, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.

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  Notebook, Pain, Journey

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.137, I.B.Tauris

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• It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.

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  Thinking, Unexpected, Officers

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

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