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"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."
"It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black."
"Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose."
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
Explore more quotes by Freya Stark
"If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age."
"Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart."
"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
"Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle."
"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."
"Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other."
"Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us."
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