All Ella Maillart Quotes
The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.
Ella Maillart
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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.
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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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From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
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I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
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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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One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
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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.
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I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
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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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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.
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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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Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
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The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.
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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.
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