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Baghdad sketches (1932)
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To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.
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This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.
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It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.
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The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Freya Stark
Born:
January 31, 1893
Died:
May 9, 1993
(aged 100)
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