"I had to live in the desert before……" — Ella Maillart
"I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch."
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42 Quotes by Ella Maillart
Ella Maillart has 42 quotes on this site.
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Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of…
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Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am…
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Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a…
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The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this…
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It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that…
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Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice…
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The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.
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You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full…
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Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with…
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From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and…
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The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to…
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The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
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I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert…
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My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a…
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within…
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The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets…
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...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely…
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He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the…
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The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either…
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It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this…
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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the…
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For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help…
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the…
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