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Ella Maillart
February 20, 1903 - March 27, 1997
Nationality: Swiss
Category: Writer

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

   

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

   

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

   

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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