Pierre Loti

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

— Pierre Loti

And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.

— Pierre Loti

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

— Pierre Loti

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

— Pierre Loti

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

— Pierre Loti

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

— Pierre Loti

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

— Pierre Loti

The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what…

— Pierre Loti

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

— Pierre Loti

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I…

— Pierre Loti

Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of to-day - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as…

— Pierre Loti

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when…

— Pierre Loti

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the…

— Pierre Loti

My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if…

— Pierre Loti

Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had…

— Pierre Loti

I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other…

— Pierre Loti

It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see…

— Pierre Loti

I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we…

— Pierre Loti

If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place…

— Pierre Loti

Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored…

— Pierre Loti

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that…

— Pierre Loti

But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where…

— Pierre Loti

“We communed together a moment, one with the other—I was deeply fascinated. At our first encounter I am sure I had a…

— Pierre Loti

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately,…

— Pierre Loti

I was at that time like a fledgling swallow living high up in a niche in the eaves, who from time to…

— Pierre Loti

The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it…

— Pierre Loti

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years…

— Pierre Loti