Quote by Ella Maillart
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that k

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. – Ella Maillart

Other quotes by Ella Maillart

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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Knowledge
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Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive. – Ella Maillart

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Travel
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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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The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. – Elizabeth Drew

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I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, its not imagination. Its just a way of watching. – Haruki Murakami

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Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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The English language is nobodys special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. – Derek Walcott

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Imagination

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