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One Quotes by Freya Stark
- 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…
- 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 can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private…
- One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.
- 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…
- If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.
- Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
- Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
- Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
- To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.
- One life is an absurdly small allowance.
- Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
- 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…
- Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.
- To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
- Christmas... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
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