Ella Maillart

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

#boxes #bulbs #disks #gliding #heat

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

#convinced #end #ever #i #i am

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

— Ella Maillart

#escapism #idea #life #my life #sum

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

— Ella Maillart

#angle #examines #minds #state #them

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. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#dying #earth #horizontal #into #power

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

— Ella Maillart

#aesthetic #intellectual #move #physical #reasons

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

— Ella Maillart

#channels #cherished #confidence #did #difficult

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

— Ella Maillart

#anywhere #cannot #distances #geographic #horizon

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

— Ella Maillart

#only #species #towards #valid #voyage

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

— Ella Maillart

#activity #among #appreciate #direct #every