Pierre Loti Quotes

• Holy Istanbul! Your name is the most enchanting one of all names which enchants me.

  Pierre Loti

  Istanbul, Names, Enchanting

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• My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

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  Emotion, Force, Endeavor

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• Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.

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  Country, Home, Sight

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• My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.

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  Book, Ink, Tasks

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• Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

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  Pintura

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• Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.

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  Appreciation, Cat, Deception

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• If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen - sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved.

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  Escritura, Gato, Animal

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• Estoy seguro de que los días tristes y los sucesos eran raros, y que vivía la vida alegre y despreocupada de otros niños; pero sólo porque los días felices eran tan habituales para mí, no causaron ninguna impresión en mi mente, y ya no puedo recordarlos.

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  Children, Mind, Happy Day

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• Pero es cierto que a veces una oscuridad envolvente ayuda a tener una visión más clara; como en un edificio panorámico, por ejemplo, donde la oscuridad de la entrada nos prepara mejor para el clímax y da a la escena representada un aspecto más real y vívido.

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  Real, Giving, Darkness

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• The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.

  Pierre Loti

  Moon, Land, Shining

  Pierre Loti (2005). “Egypt”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Seguía aferrado a mi determinación de convertirme en ministro; aún me parecía que ése era mi deber. Me había comprometido, en mis oraciones había dado mi palabra a Dios. ¿Cómo podía, pues, faltar a mi voto?

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  Determination, Prayer, Vow

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• A través del estudio de los fósiles ya me había iniciado en los misterios de las creaciones prehistóricas.

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  Fossils, Study, Mystery

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• It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.

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  Men, Seems, Be A Man

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• It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.

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  Country, Children, Ocean

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• It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

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  Cat, Winter, Air

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• I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.

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  Past, June, Self

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• I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

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  Museums, Remember, Periods

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• My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.

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  Brother, Different, Generations

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• Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.

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  Niños, Crecer, Hombres

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• Aún conservo en la memoria impresiones casi agónicas de una grave enfermedad que padecí cuando tenía unos ocho años. Los que me rodeaban la llamaban escarlatina, y su mismo nombre parecía tener una cualidad diabólica.

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  Memories, Eight, Years

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• I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

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  Wish, Desire, Missionary

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• I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother.

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  Mother, Memories, Sunday

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• Egipto, el Egipto de la antigüedad, ejerció más tarde sobre mí una misteriosa fascinación. Reconocí inmediatamente, sin vacilación ni asombro, una fotografía suya en una revista ilustrada.

  Pierre Loti

  Egypt, Fascination, Magazines

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