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Freya Stark Quotes and Quotations
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to do it rightly is an art like any other. 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. Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn-the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness. There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. All our acts have sacramental possibilities. Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared. All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog, child, or horse would recognize the kindness of it. Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die. The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction. Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter. Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. |