"Holy Istanbul! Your name is the most enchanting……" — Pierre Loti
"Holy Istanbul! Your name is the most enchanting one of all names which enchants me."
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Pierre Loti
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26 Quotes by Pierre Loti
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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…
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If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take…
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The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours;…
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My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost…
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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…
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I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my…
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I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew…
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Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of…
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It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing…
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I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about…
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Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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