Ella Maillart

I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise? ↗

— Ella Maillart

#cut #everything #i #i am #instinctively

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

#concept #even #feeling #i #i can

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

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

— Ella Maillart

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I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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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. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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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. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#better #better world #develop #feeling #main

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

#artist #blessed #blessed be #child #does

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

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

— Ella Maillart

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