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Ella Maillart

"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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"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 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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"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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"I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch."
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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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"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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"It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better."
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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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"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
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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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