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“every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.”

Quote by Freya Stark

Book:the zodiac arch

Work

the zodiac arch

This novel delves into the intriguing relationship between the twelve zodiac signs and their symbolic representation in ancient architectural structures. The story weaves together historical facts and speculative fiction, inviting readers to ponder the hidden meanings behind these architectural wonders. more

Author

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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“words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.”

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“Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.”

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“I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!”

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“Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?”

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“The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.”

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“Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral.”

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“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.”

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“... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.”

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“All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be.”

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“... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.”

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