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• To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.

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  Moving, Heart, Thinking

  Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.27, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing.

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  Timing, Trouble

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• ... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.

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  World, Littles, Reconcile

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• every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

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  Peace, Produce, Universal

  Freya Stark (1954). “Ionia: A Quest”, London : J. Murray

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• I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered.

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  Self, Grace, Rich

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

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• ... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.

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  Nice, Home, Rushing

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

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• From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.

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  Sorrow, Divine, Streams

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

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• All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be.

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  Humility, Greatness, Style

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.84, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

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  Kindness, Fundamentals, Revolution

  Freya Stark (1969). “The zodiac arch”

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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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• Few - very few - of our attainments are so profound that they are valid for always; even if they are so, they need adjustment, a straightening here, a loosening there, like an old garment to be fitted to the body.

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  Profound, Needs, Body

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

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• Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.

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  Laughing, Arses, Maps

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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.

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  Art, Ingredients, Absence

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

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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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• I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.

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  Thinking, Numbers, Preparation

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• The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

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  Fashion, Art, Garden

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• Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.

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  Body, Poor, Arteries

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.211, I.B.Tauris

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• Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.

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  Fairness, Influential, Unfair

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• 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 travelling brotherhood.

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  Art, Lying, Clouds

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

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• ... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.

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  Thinking, Government, Civilization

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• The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.

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  Land, Unhappy, Substance

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• The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.

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  People, Arabia, Levels

  Freya Stark (2011). “A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen”, p.92, The Overlook Press

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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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  Christian, Practice, Giving

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

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