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
humanity infinity different
Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
ideas escapism
That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.
mind done illusion
One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.
mind states angle
The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.
heart language speak
When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.
language foreign-language wanted
I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.
mould sentences refuse
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
feelings substance i-can
I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.
wind desire tides
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
sunshine ice gliding
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.
adventure desire spirit
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
running imagination enthusiasm
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
journey men voyages
There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.
cutting men rose
I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?