Freya Stark
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Freya Stark (1893-01-31 - 1993-05-09) was a British travel writer.
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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. in "The Wise Men" from Time and Tide
- The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. As quoted in Ionia, a Quest (1954) by Freya Stark, p. 94
- Variant translation of Pythagoras: The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil.
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- One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.[1]
- To awaken quite alone in a strange town, is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.[2]
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- There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.[3]
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- ↑ Cited in Molly Izzard, A Marvellous Eye, Cornucopia Issue 2. From Wikipedia: Freya Stark. Retrieved 2009-08-25
- ↑ The Great Ones - Freya Stark, History's Greatest Explorers on iExplore.com. Retrieved 2009-08-25
- ↑ Quoted on many quotation sites without references. Example: Quotations by Author: Freya Madeline Stark on The Quotations Page. Retrieved 2009-08-25
