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39 quotes by Ella Maillart

Ella Maillart, one of the great travelers of the 20th century Ella Maillart (or Ella K. Maillart; February 20, 1903, Geneva – March 27, 1997, Chandolin) was a French-speaking Swiss adventurer, travel writer and photographer, as well as a sportswoman.
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The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

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The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

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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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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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When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

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

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

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

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

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