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Risk is the salt and sugar of life. — Freya Stark

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war. — Freya Stark

I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous. — Freya Stark

It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think. — Freya Stark

To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense — Freya Stark

Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else. — Freya Stark

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful. — Freya Stark

An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death. — Freya Stark

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. — Freya Stark

All our acts have sacramental possibilities. — Freya Stark

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death? — Freya Stark

The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you — Freya Stark

Words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them. — Freya Stark

It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. — Freya Stark

It is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning. — Freya Stark

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle. — 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 to it with consideration. — Freya Stark

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has. — Freya Stark

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition. — Freya Stark

I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all. — Freya Stark

Monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed. — Freya Stark

Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing ... — Freya Stark

Every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace. — Freya Stark

It is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization. — Freya Stark

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. — Freya Stark

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good. — Freya Stark

Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die. — Freya Stark

Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used. — Freya Stark

What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself. — Freya Stark

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech. — 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 all things human and divine. — Freya Stark

One life is an absurdly small allowance. — Freya Stark

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 is surprised. — Freya Stark

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter. — Freya Stark

The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room. — Freya Stark

I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving — 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 for travelling? — Freya Stark

I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues. — Freya Stark

All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it. — Freya Stark

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction — Freya Stark

It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul. — Freya Stark

The symbol is greater than visible substance ... Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care. — Freya Stark

Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared. — Freya Stark

The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you. — Freya Stark

This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity ... — Freya Stark

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact! — Freya Stark

Freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit. — Freya Stark

Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral. — Freya Stark

Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest. — Freya Stark

There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving. — 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. — Freya Stark

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

The thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. — Freya Stark

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. — Freya Stark

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations. — Freya Stark

I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats. — Freya Stark

We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease. — Freya Stark

Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses ... — Freya Stark

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. — Freya Stark

Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse. — Freya Stark

Advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it. — Freya Stark

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. — Freya Stark

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us. — Freya Stark

One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done. — Freya Stark