Ella Maillart Quotes

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• Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness…
• Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is…
• Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
• The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our…
• It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
• Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs,…
• The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.
• You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you,…
• Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.
• From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
• The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal…
• The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
• Certain travelers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
• There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.
• We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that…
• The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.
• Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of…
• One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
• I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
• I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.

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