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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."
"Every bond is a bond to sorrow."
Explore more quotes by Ella Maillart
"From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide."
"The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons."
"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."
"It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better."
"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."
"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."
"The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself."
"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."
"I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch."
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