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Freya Stark

"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."

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"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."

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"Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!"

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"I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate."

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"As a very young man, I thought of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen."

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"I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side."

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"Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!"

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"The most beautiful thing about the most beautiful roads is that the destination is forgotten and the journey becomes the destination itself!"

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"I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures."

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"It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling."

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"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."

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"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."

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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."
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"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."
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"Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle."
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"Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other."
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"Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature."
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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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"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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Freya Stark
"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."
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