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

— Ella Maillart

#few #foreign #foreign languages #go #had

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#better #end #face #find #journey

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#better #better world #develop #feeling #main

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

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