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Ella Maillart
 
Date of birth: 20 February 1903
Date of death: 27 March 1997
Country Of Origin: Switzerland
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    adventurer and travel writer, as well as a sportswoman. She had been captain of the Swiss Women's hockey team and was an international skier. She spent decades exploring oriental republics of the USSR during the Stalin period and published a rich series of books considered today as valuable historical testimonies. In these countries she is often cited as a reference. In 1935 she teamed up with Peter Fleming to cross China from Peking to Srinagar later recorded in her book Forbidden Journ .... (More...)
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" Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive. "

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" 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. "

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" From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide. "

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" How long it took me to overcome my guilt-complex! "

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" Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own. "

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" I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise? "

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" 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. "

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" I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition. "

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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. "

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" I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. "

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" I have been able to satisfy my urge to travel by going five times to Asia after spending many a summer on board small sailing ships. "

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" I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. "

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" I travelled up and down the social shelves that build the watertight compartments of our so-called democratic age. "

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" I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad. "

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" It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better. "

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