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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

#convinced #end #ever #i #i am

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

— John Major

#conceived #father #i #late #mother

I've always got something to say. ↗

— Joan Jett

#got #i #say #something

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