Quotes of Freya Madeline Stark - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight… ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight… ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful… ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ 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… ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ 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… ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful… ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ 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. ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ 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. ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ 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… ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight… ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ 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… ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ 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… ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ 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… ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us. ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight… ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us. ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us. ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight… ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful… ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ 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… ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ 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. ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction. ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ Things good in themselves … perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter. ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us. ”

- Freya Madeline Stark
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