To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
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… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend… — Freya Stark Copy Share
From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of… — Freya Stark Copy Share
The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live. — Freya Stark Copy Share
The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it… — Freya Stark Copy Share
On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as… — Freya Stark Copy Share
If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road. — Freya Stark Copy Share
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The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are… — Freya Stark Copy Share
There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a… — Freya Stark Copy Share
“I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be… — Freya Stark Copy Share
