Freya Stark - Time Quotes

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Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.

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It was not my sins that I regretted at that time; but rather the many things undone — even those indiscretions which one might have committed and had not.

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It is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.

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Tidiness... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.

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