Quotes by Ella Maillart - Page 1

Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.
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Describe
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That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.
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Escapism
Life My Life Words
Sum
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Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.
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Grasp
Possess
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I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
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Mould
Refuse
Sentences
Acts
Rigid
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When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.
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Romantic
Heart
Language
Same
Speaks
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There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.
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Species
Towards
Valid
Voyage
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I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.
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Abroad
Languages
Foreign Languages
Therefore
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The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.
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Angle
Vary
According
State
Minds
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The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.
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Easier
Responsible
Sailing
Sooner
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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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Instant
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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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Ambition
Weakness
Depressed
Existing
Gap
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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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Ours
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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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Nature
Desert
Grass
Green
Live
Understand
Had
Before
Full
Could
Ditch
Value
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Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
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Travel
Alive
Impression
Moving
Fully
Travellers
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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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Journey
Wisdom
Ends
Faces
Self
Face
Own
Sooner
Find
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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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Desire
Wind
Beginning
Patiently
Tide
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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.
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Travel
Unknown
Afraid
Reveals
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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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Humanity
Infinity
Motives
Individuals
Travels
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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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Marry
Instinctively
Otherwise
Possess
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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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Aesthetic
Spiritual
Traveller
Reasons
Urged
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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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Escape
Travels
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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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Adventure
Tamed
Somewhat
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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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Imagination
Travel
Capacity
Enthusiasm
Routine
Away
Run
Dreadful
Travels
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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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Conditioning
Direct
Mechanism
Towns
Feared
Gained
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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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Horizon
Anywhere
Distances
Geographic
Otherwise
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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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Dying
Horizontal
Timelessness
Vertical
Warp
Woven
Concept
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Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.
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Activity
Appreciate
Direct
Tribes
Immediately
Understandable
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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.
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Dream
Smile
Literature
University
Usual
Appeal
Channels
Cherished
Secretarial
Studies
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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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Journey
Feelings
Literature
Oneness
Solidarity
Better World
Develop
Main
Points
Travelling
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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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Journey
Accomplished
Benefits
Character
Literature
Moments
Perfect
Affects
Weighed
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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.
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Substance
Concept
No Sense
References
Relationships
Spin
Web
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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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Travel
Birthright
Conquer
Inheritance
Possession
Time Home World
Time Home Travel
Every Time
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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.
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Travel World I Am
Towards
Shall
Simultaneously
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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.
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Alive
Blessed
Wonder
Life Keep Alive
Marvel
Once More
Travels
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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.
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Deeper
Mysterious
Passengers
Life Must People
Abroad
Board
Develop
Greater Understanding
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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.
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Boxes
Gliding
Heat
Ice
Pale
Sunshine
Images
Natives
Pipes
Screen
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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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Journey
Asia
Covered
Nevertheless
Peter
Fleming
Crossed
Exactly The Same
My Friend
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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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Chinese
Columbus
First Time
Laughing
Risk
Rotten
Starting
Tibetan
Unknown
Enter
Lane
Meal
Pub
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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.
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Consciousness
Reckoning
Unknown
Judge
Aspects
Brings
Broadened
Correctly
Enriched
Fore
Shall
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