Quote by Ella Maillart
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did n

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself. – Ella Maillart

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

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Imagination
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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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Travel
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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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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. – Douglas Adams

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Dreams

The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that its best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves. – Henry Reed

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Dreams

I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams. – Kenny Cunningham

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Dreams

I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives. – Henry Reed

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Dreams

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The only limits are, as always, those of vision. – James Broughton

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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. – Anaïs Nin

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Life

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians. – Henry Hazlitt

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I dont think its always good to read lots of poetry. – Amber Tamblyn

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