Ella Maillart Quotes

• So far I like India.

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• Wherever I go, it is always the secret life of such simple, straightforward races that I seek, people whom a fair face is sufficient to content. Only by returning to their way of life, can we ever hope to find a way out of the bogs in which we vainly stumble.

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• No. Cost what it may I am determined to go East. The nomad’s life enthralls me. Its restlessness pursues me: it is as much part of meas of the sailor. All parts and none are home to me, and all arriving only a new setting forth.

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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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• 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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• Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.

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

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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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• 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.

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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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• 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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• Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

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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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• There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.

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• The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

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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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• The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

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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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• 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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Ella Maillart (42)

Birth:	20th February, 1903
Death:	27th March, 1997
Nationality:	Swiss
Profession:	Adventurer, Athlete, Photographer, Writer

About

Ella Maillart was born in Geneva, Switzerland. She was a Swiss adventurer, travel writer, sportswoman, and photographer. She had been captain of the Swiss Women's land hockey team and was an international skier. She also competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics as sailor in the Olympic monotype competition. From the 1930s onwards she spent years exploring oriental republics of the USSR, as well as other parts of Asia, and published a rich series of books which, just as her photographs, are today considered valuable historical testimonies. Her early books were written in French but later she began to write in English. Turkestan Solo describes a journey in 1932 in Soviet Turkestan. The Cruel Way is the title of Ella Maillart's book about this experience, cut short by the outbreak of the second World War.

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