Ella Maillart
Ella Maillart
Ella Maillartwas a French-speaking Swiss adventurer, travel writer and photographer, as well as a sportswoman...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth20 February 1903
CountrySwitzerland
certain fully impression travel travellers
Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
analyse led obeying strong today urge
When I started travelling, I was 18; I was instinctively obeying a strong urge. Today I can analyse that urge and see where it has led me.
cut possess sure
I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
asia covered crossed exactly peter spoke
When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his.
cruise far following journey left question sooner
No sooner had I left to cruise the Mediterranean than the following question preoccupied me: How far does one kill a journey by making it become real?
children parent house
We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.
world ends convinced
I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.
towns poor bigs
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.
home conquer-the-world long
Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.
depressing ambition literature
I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
spiritual moving intellectual
The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
happiness past promise
Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.
order world funny-travel
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.
self giving judging
Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.