Freya Stark
Freya Stark
Dame Freya Madeline Stark, Mrs Perowne, DBEwas a British explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan, as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabians to travel through the southern Arabian Deserts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth31 January 1893
CityParis, France
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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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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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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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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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advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.
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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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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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The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction
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Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
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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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To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense
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All our acts have sacramental possibilities.
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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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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.