Ella Maillart quotes - page 2

Words are impotent to describe certain emotions. (Ella Maillart)
The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly. View quote
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I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad. View quote
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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. View quote
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I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. View quote
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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. View quote
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The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself. View quote
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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. View quote
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I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition. (Ella Maillart)
Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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