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“I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered.”

Quote by Freya Stark

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

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The Journey's Echo: Selections

This book compiles a variety of narratives and essays that delve into the personal and philosophical aspects of journeying, both physically and emotionally. more

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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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Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

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Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.”

“In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.”

Form Integrity Conscious Unconscious Truthful Propagandist

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

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“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.”

Way Humans Existence Holy Ordinary Everyday Divorce Sacraments Human Existence

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.”

Thinking Doe Government Given Walks Streets Subjects Civilization Wretchedness

Author:Freya Stark

“... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.”

World Littles Extraordinary Variety Parting Reconcile

Author:Freya Stark

“I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.”

Believe Long Destruction Our Words Recklessness

Author:Freya Stark

“... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.”

People World Want Giving Feelings Home Found Nice Likes Rushing Permanence Restful

Book:Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46

Source: Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46

“... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.”

Matter Civilization Civilized Decay

Author:Freya Stark