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Freya Stark, born on January 31, 1893, and died on May 9, 1993, was a renowned British explorer. She is best known for her expeditions in the Middle East, where she conducted in-depth research on local culture, history, and geography.

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Famous Freya Stark Quotes

“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.”

Virtue Security Bed Treated Boredom Couches Coffins Monotony

Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

“The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.”

Ifs Steps Virtue Doubt Comfort Tasks Affair No Doubt Carrie Ritual Usual Vulgar Comprehension Dreary Camels Pompous Dullness

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.”

Knows War Seems Games Peace Chance Virtue Dangerous Serious Exercise Mountain Substitutes Pacifist

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.”

Humans War Self Seems Causes Sleep Sin Race Virtue Daughter Resistance Human Race Laziness Persecution Status Quo Constancy Self Sufficiency Sufficiency

Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

“The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.”

People Humans Human Beings Levels Virtue Complicated Likes Charm Perpetual Traveler Sentimental Arabia Pedantic

Book:A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen

Source: A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen

“I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.”

People Virtue Dislike Anvils

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

About the Author

Born: January 31, 1893
Died: May 9, 1993
Known for: Explorer
Quotes: 126

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The Journey's Echo: SelectionsRelated source material

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Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through IraqRelated source material

Ionia: A QuestRelated source material

Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46Related source material

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