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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.
— Ella Maillart
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.
— Ella Maillart
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
— Ella Maillart
Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
— Ella Maillart
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
I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
— Ella Maillart
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.
— Ella Maillart
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
Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.
— Ella Maillart
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
— Ella Maillart
Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
— Ella Maillart
The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
— Ella Maillart
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
— Ella Maillart
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
Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.
— Ella Maillart
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
— Ella Maillart
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
— Ella Maillart
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
That idea of escapism ... these words could sum up my life.
— Ella Maillart
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
— Ella Maillart
When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.
— Ella Maillart
Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.
— Ella Maillart
The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.
— Ella Maillart
