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

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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. more

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“The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.”

Two Order Impact Creator Mythology Categories Divided Terrific Destroyers

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.”

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“It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.”

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Book:Ionia: A Quest

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“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.”

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Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.”

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Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.”

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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.”

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Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

“the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.”

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Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“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

“Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing.”

Author:Freya Stark