Ella Maillart Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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

  People, Understanding, Boards

• 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

  Character, Journey, Perfect

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

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  Journey, Men, Literature

• We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

  Ella Maillart

  Children, House, Parent

• I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

  Ella Maillart

  Depressing, Ambition, Weakness

• Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

  Ella Maillart

  Simple, Appreciate, Literature

• 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.

  Ella Maillart

  Home, Conquer The World, Long

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

  Ella Maillart

  Ideas, Literature, Escapism

• 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.

  Ella Maillart

  Journey, Oneness, Feelings

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

  Ella Maillart

  Running, Imagination, Routine

• The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

  Ella Maillart

  Mind, Literature, States

• The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

  Ella Maillart

  Confidence, Dream, Usual

• 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

  Literature, Towns, Poor

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

  Ella Maillart

  Heart, Literature, Language

• Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

  Ella Maillart

  Humanity, Different, Literature

• 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

  Boys, Climbing, Hiking

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

  Ella Maillart

  Travel, Literature, Language

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

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  Spiritual, Moving, Intellectual

• 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

  Children, Blessed, Artist

• Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

  Ella Maillart

  Literature, Able

• When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

  Ella Maillart

  Looks, Literature, Certain

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