Swiss - Writer | February 20, 1903 - March 27, 1997
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
Ella Maillart
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One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.
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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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From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
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The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
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