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> [The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/the-beckoning-counts-and-not-the-clicking-of-the-latch-behind-you/)

[Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/)

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> [“The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/the-beckoning-counts-not-the-clicking-latch-behind-you/)

[Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/)

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## More by Freya Stark

> [I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/i-do-think-we-should-be-provided-with-a-new-body-about-the-age-of/)

[Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/)

> [The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/the-world-has-become-too-full-of-many-things-an-over-furnished-room/)

[Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/)

> [From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/from-love-one-can-only-escape-at-the-price-of-life-itself-and-no/)

[Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/)

> [The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/the-unexpectedness-of-life-waiting-round-every-corner-catches-even/)

[Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/)

> [Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/words-are-the-only-arteries-of-thought-our-poor-human-body-possesses/)

[Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/)

> [The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/the-past-is-our-treasure-its-works-whether-we-know-them-or-not/)

[Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/)

> [On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/on-the-other-hand-there-is-a-certain-advantage-in-traveling-with/)

[Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/)

> [If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/if-one-were-given-a-single-window-from-which-to-look-upon-the/)

[Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/)

> [advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/advertisement-has-brought-our-disregard-for-truth-into-the-open/)

[Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/)

> [Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/who-dares-to-be-intellectual-in-the-presence-of-death/)

[Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/the-persian-s-mind-like-his-illuminated-manuscripts-does-not-deal-in/)

[Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/)

> [Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/curiosity-is-the-one-thing-invincible-in-nature/)

[Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/)

> [There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/there-are-i-sometimes-think-only-two-sorts-of-people-in-this-world/)

[Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/)

> [Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/nearly-all-trouble-comes-from-mis-timing/)

[Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/)

> [“I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/i-have-no-reason-to-go-except-that-i-have-never-been-and-knowledge-is/)

[Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/)

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