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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. "

Ella Maillart

Meet

Understanding

Ship

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Myself

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" Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive. "

" I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Words are impotent to describe certain emotions. "

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

Ella Maillart

Wanted

Abroad

" One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. "

" Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

Cannot

Horizon

" Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see. "

Ella Maillart

Look

I See

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