To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
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On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.Freya Stark
One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving se with the tide always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.
Freya Stark
This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you it is yours now for ever.
Freya Stark
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.
Freya Stark
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
Freya Stark
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
Freya Stark
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