I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

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• Ella Maillart:

  I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

• Ella Maillart:

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

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

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  Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects

• Ella Maillart:

  One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that onenes

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  One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be

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  One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one tra

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  One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our

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  Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

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  Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice