The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction. -Freya Stark

 

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


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

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Christmas... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart...

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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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Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.

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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.

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