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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 (1893-1993) Franco-British explorer, travel writer
Perseus in the Wind, ch. 16 (1948).

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Freya Madeline Stark (1893-1993) Franco-British explorer, travel writer
The Journey’s Echo

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 of love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.

Freya Madeline Stark (1893-1993) Franco-British explorer, travel writer
Traveller’s Prelude, ch. 10 (1950)