Ella Maillart Quotes - Page 2

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• Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.

  Ella Maillart

  Writing, Emotion, Certain

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• Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

  Ella Maillart

  Sunshine, Ice, Gliding

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• Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.

  Ella Maillart

  Happiness, Past, Promise

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

  Ella Maillart

  Humanity, Different, Literature

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

  Ella Maillart

  Travel, Literature, Language

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• 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, Self, Giving

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• Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.

  Ella Maillart

  Travel, Order, World

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• 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

  Feelings, Substance, I Can

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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.

  Ella Maillart

  Simple, Appreciate, Literature

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

  Ella Maillart

  Mind, Literature, States

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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.

  Ella Maillart

  Wind, Desire, Tides

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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.

  Ella Maillart

  Confidence, Dream, Usual

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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.

  Ella Maillart

  Literature, Towns, Poor

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• I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

  Ella Maillart

  Mould, Refuse, Sentences

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

  Ella Maillart

  Depressing, Ambition, Weakness

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