Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
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Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.Freya Stark
Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
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The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
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I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.
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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static and its value and its weakness lie in being so but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.
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The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.
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