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Risk is the salt and sugar of life.
— Freya Stark
To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense
— 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
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
Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
— 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
Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing ...
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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
One life is an absurdly small allowance.
— Freya Stark
Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
— Freya Stark
I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving
— Freya Stark
Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.
— 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
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
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
— 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
