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

— Ella Maillart

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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

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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

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

— Ella Maillart

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. ↗

— Malcolm X

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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

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My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. ↗

— John Major

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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

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

— Ella Maillart

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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

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