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Ella Maillart
Swiss
Writer
About the author
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 being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Being
#Self
#Consciousness
#Travel
There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Men
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Spirit
#Desire
#Adventure
#Travel
We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Want
#Children
#Earth
#Parents
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, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Music
Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Imagination
#Routine
#Enthusiasm
One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Mind
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,
Swiss
Writer
#Life
#Wonder
#Sense
#Artist
The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
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,
Swiss
Writer
#World
#Feeling
#Oneness
#Solidarity
Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Friend
#Journey
#Months
When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Heart
#Language
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Words
#Emotions
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.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Time
#First
#Risk
#Boys
#Columbus
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Travel
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 to travel towards the world's end.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#World
#End
#Universe
#Order
#Travel
Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Humanity
#Motives
#Infinity
Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Impression
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,
Swiss
Writer
#End
#Self
#Journey
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,
Swiss
Writer
#Life
#People
#Understanding
#Interest
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Life
#Desire
#Beginning
#Wind
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Work
#Dreams
#Confidence
#University
I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Man
I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Relationships
#Now
#Feeling
#Sense
#Values
I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Want
#Ambition
#Weakness
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.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Life
#Poor
#Knowledge
The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Spiritual
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Life
#Words
#Idea
#Escapism
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.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Character
#Journey
#Moments
#Benefits
The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Will
The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#State
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.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Time
#Earth
#Power
#Running
#Dying
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.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Time
#World
#Home
#Possession
#Inheritance
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
Ella Maillart,
Swiss
Writer
#Value