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The Valleys of the Assassins (1934)
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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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Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?
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The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.
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Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different point, and repaying this loving study, if it is anything of a mountain at all, by a gradual revelation of personality, an increase of significance.
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Freya Stark
Born:
January 31, 1893
Died:
May 9, 1993
(aged 100)
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