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Freya Stark Quotes: This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.
         

This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.


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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.



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To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.



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Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.



Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.



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The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction



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The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.



You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.



This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.



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The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.



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The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.





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