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Christmas Quote by Freya Stark

“Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.” quote by Freya Stark — Download Open image

“Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.”

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If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.

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advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.

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Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

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