Freya Stark Quotes | I think that the worst unpleasantness of age ...

"I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats."

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Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

— Shirley Chisholm

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Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.

— Jane Bowles

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