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Freya Stark has 55 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense…
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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…
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We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
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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;…
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There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
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All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the…
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You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept…
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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.…
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It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.
— William Shakespeare
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You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved…
— George Orwell
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A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half…
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He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter…
— David Guterson
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Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at…
— Freya Stark
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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my…
— William Congreve
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You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live…
— Jack London
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And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look…
— Alice Sebold
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Keith was just bringing the glass to his lips when Adrian said, "Mmm. O positive, my favorite." Keith sprayed out the wine…
— Richelle Mead
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Fortuitous mostly for me,Lady Holloway," she said, her gaze steadfast on her husband. "For without our being childhgood neighbors, I am certain…
— Sarah MacLean
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He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the…
— William Shakespeare
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