Ella Maillart Quotes About Literature
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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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When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.
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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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That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.
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Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.
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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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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 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.
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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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I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.
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Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.
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We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.
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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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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.
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When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.
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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.
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The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
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There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.
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The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.
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The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
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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.
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