When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see. — Ella Maillart Certain Copy Share Image
The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them. — Ella Maillart Angle Copy Share Image
I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad. — Ella Maillart Wanted Copy Share Image
I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise? — Ella Maillart Rose Copy Share Image
I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around… — Ella Maillart I can Copy Share Image
The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded… — Ella Maillart Dying Copy Share Image
The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be. — Ella Maillart Easier Copy Share Image
Certain travelers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive. — Ella Maillart Alive Copy Share Image
Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them. — Ella Maillart Able Copy Share Image
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. — Ella Maillart Mould Copy Share Image
We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers… — Ella Maillart Deeper Copy Share Image
When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we… — Ella Maillart Friend Copy Share Image
I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end. — Ella Maillart Convinced Copy Share Image
One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no… — Ella Maillart Better world Copy Share Image
You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys… — Ella Maillart Brave Copy Share Image
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide. — Ella Maillart Desire Copy Share Image
