Quote by Ella Maillart
Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also br

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. – Ella Maillart

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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 worlds end. – Ella Maillart

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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. – Ella Maillart

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You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. – Ella Maillart

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I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush. – Werner Herzog

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I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel. – Patrick Troughton

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Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone whos connected with it, the studios gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing thats left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. – Tom Waits

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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – Paul Theroux

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