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Pierre Loti has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place…
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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…
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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…
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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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I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the…
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Holy Istanbul! Your name is the most enchanting one of all names which enchants me.
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I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I…
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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…
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Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately,…
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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…
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I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years…
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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
— Hilaire Belloc
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
— Eldridge Cleaver
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A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed…
— Henry James
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I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Woolly jumpers,…
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
— Doris Lessing
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All the unhallowed beauty I have found; All free - discordant shrills and form-defying wonders above ground, like writhen trees with draggled…
— Unknown Author
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The Scarlet Pimpernel is the most over-rated human being since Judas Iscariot won the A.D.31 'Best Disciple' competition.
— Rowan Atkinson
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Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.
— George R. R. Martin
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It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and…
— Washington Irving
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I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years…
— Wilma Rudolph
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I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years…
— Pierre Loti
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Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.
— Osbert Sitwell
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