Freya Stark quotes

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. (Freya Stark)
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. View quote
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If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age. View quote
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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. View quote
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Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle. View quote
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One life is an absurdly small allowance. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Freya Stark)