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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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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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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To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
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One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.
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To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.
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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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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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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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Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.
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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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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.