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• Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.

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  Cutting, Men, Winning

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.44, I.B.Tauris

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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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  Discipline, Solitude, Ordinary

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• Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.

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  Men, Sea, Born

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.187, I.B.Tauris

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• it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.

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  Regret, Employment, Might

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

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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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  Love, Women, Stupid

  1934 The Valley of the Assassins.

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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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  Love Of Learning, Deals, Pleasant

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• The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.

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  Lying, Essence, Unseen

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.141, I.B.Tauris

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• One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

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  Luck, Nuisance, Done

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• There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.

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  Generosity, Giving, Receiving

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• One life is an absurdly small allowance.

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  Life Is, Allowance

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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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  Doors, Judging, People

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

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• One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.

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  Moving, Believe, Thinking

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• Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.

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  Past, People, Cracks

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

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• On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

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  Art, Philosophy, Light

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

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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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  Death, Acceptance, Successful

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.45, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

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  People, Anvils, Virtue

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

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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 pleasant waters for our old age.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Faith

  Freya Stark (1974). “The Open Door, 1930-35”

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• Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.

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  Acceptance, Personality, Style

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.33, I.B.Tauris

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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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  Christmas, Home, Heart

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.61, I.B.Tauris

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• The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. 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 traveling brotherhood.

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  Life, Change, Art

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

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• I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

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  Believe, Long, Our Words

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• The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

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  Simple, World, Rooms

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• Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

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  Curiosity, Invincible, One Thing

  Freya Stark (1977). “Bridge of the Levant 1940-43”

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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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  Race, Circles, Soul

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• The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.

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  Weed, Flower, Thinking

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