"Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those……" — Pierre Loti
"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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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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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…
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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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And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the…
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For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a…
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A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance;…
— William E. Woodward
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Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion,…
— Eugene Delacroix
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Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and…
— Victor Hugo
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Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of to-day - who are eager to become men and women as…
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