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


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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.

- Ella Maillart

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

- Ella Maillart

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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