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Ella Maillart
Ella Maillart
Swiss Writer
Born: Feb 20, 1903
Died: Mar 27, 1997
About Life Live Own Time Travel
Related authors: Ayn Rand Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Niccolo Machiavelli Thomas Mann Thomas Paine Voltaire
When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see. Ella Maillart
See Something Instant Look Am Certain
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
Life People Understanding Meet Must Abroad Mysterious Develop Like Greater Greater Understanding Passengers Ship Interest Board Us Deeper Here
That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life. Ella Maillart
Life Words My Life Sum Could Idea Up Escapism
The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character. Ella Maillart
Journey Character Benefits Changes Our Perfect Weighed Terms How Accomplished Affects Cannot Moments
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
Travel Bit Those Spirit Something Somewhat Adventure Also Tamed Afraid Who Desire
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. Ella Maillart
You Travel Yourself Unknown Reveals Afraid
Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive. Ella Maillart
Travel Keep Moving Alive Give Only Feel Because Impression Moving Then Certain Fully Keep Travellers
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide. Ella Maillart
Life Wind Beginning Own Live My Own Tide Up Patiently Wanted Against Desire
I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise? Ella Maillart
Man Wish Rose Otherwise Everything Possess Marry Instinctively Sure Am Cut Why
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
Values Feeling Sense Relationships Our Unless Out Spin See Web No Sense Concept Around Makes References Substance Even Now
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
Life Knowledge Big Feared Direct Towns Conditioning Gained Poor Mechanism Lived
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. Ella Maillart
Our Rigid Mould Refuse Sentences Acts
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. Ella Maillart
Travel Judge Own Unknown Enriched Our Broadened Reckoning System Correctly Ourselves Give More Only Shall Self New Also Fore Does Being Us Aspects Consciousness Brings
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
Life Poet Blessed Sense Once Way Once More Alive More Marvel Learn Knows Does How His Wonder Child Artist Who Keep Travels
Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it. Ella Maillart
Possess Able Only Grasp
There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men. Ella Maillart
Walk Men Valid Only Towards Voyage Which Species
When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his. Ella Maillart
Journey My Journey Other Months Exactly Exactly The Same My Friend Crossed No-One Spoke Nevertheless Covered His Friend Same Asia Fleming Ground Many Peter Each
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions. Ella Maillart
Emotions Words Certain Describe
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. Ella Maillart
Time You First Meal Down Unknown Enter Laughing Risk Columbus Feel Tibetan First Time Boy Climbing Brave Pub Chinese Lane Full Meat Rotten Starting
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
Time Power Earth Running Woven Horizontal Concept Vertical Timelessness Dying Warp

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