Freya Stark - The southern gates of Arabia (1936)

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The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.

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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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