Ella Maillart Quotes

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• You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

  Ella Maillart

  Inspirational, Travel, Journey

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• It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

  Ella Maillart

  Journey, Self, Faces

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• 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 mysterious ship called life.

  Ella Maillart

  People, Understanding, Boards

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• The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

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  Distance, Talking, Horizon

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• One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

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  Running, Imagination, Routine

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• I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

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  Good Life, Desert, Green

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• One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

  Ella Maillart

  Journey, Oneness, Feelings

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• When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

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  Looks, Literature, Certain

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• One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

  Ella Maillart

  Children, Blessed, Artist

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• 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 character.

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  Character, Journey, Perfect

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• I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.

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  Travel, World, Ends

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• When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

  Ella Maillart

  Heart, Literature, Language

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• The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

  Ella Maillart

  Inspirational, Funny, Sea

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• We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

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  Children, House, Parent

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• There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.

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  Journey, Men, Literature

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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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  Spiritual, Moving, Intellectual

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• 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 earth.

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  Running, Dying, Woven

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• Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

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  Literature, Able

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• I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?

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  Cutting, Men, Rose

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• One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

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  Mind, Done, Illusion

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• 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, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

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  Boys, Climbing, Hiking

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• Certain travelers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

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  Moving, Giving, Alive

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• That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

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  Ideas, Literature, Escapism

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• 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 what is my birthright, my inheritance.

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  Home, Conquer The World, Long

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• Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

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  Travel, Adventure, Desire

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