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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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“Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.”

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Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.”

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Author:Freya Stark

“Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.”

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Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.”

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Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.”

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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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