Author: Ella Maillart

Quotes

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

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

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.

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

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

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

- Ella Maillart

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.

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.

- 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.

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

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

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

- Ella Maillart

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

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

- Ella Maillart

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

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

- 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.

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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