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Freya Stark [1893-1993] English

Rank: 101
Writer, Explorer

Dame Freya Madeline Stark, Mrs Perowne, DBE was a British - Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan, as well as several autobiographical works and essays.

Age, Alone, Christmas, Faith, Family, Happiness, Home, Nature

Quote	Tags	Rank
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.	Nature	101
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.	Christmas, Home	102
Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.	Family	103
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.	Alone	104
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.	Age, Faith	105
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.	Happiness	106
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.		107
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.		108
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.		109

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