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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
Explore more quotes by Freya Stark
"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
"Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other."
"Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart."
"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."
"Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle."
"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."
"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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