Quotes Pierre Loti

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

But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids on...

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a ...

I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and th...

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to bec...

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum...

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I f...

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a...

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; ...

I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we al...

I was at that time like a fledgling swallow living high up i...

It is said that many children who live in the central provin...

It is strange that my tenderly guarded infancy should have b...

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

My aunt Claire was the person who petted me most. And it was...

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and c...

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret th...

My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, ...

Often, before returning home, I would take a long and rounda...

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industri...

The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, i...

The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go be...

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated in...

Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of to-...

If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly,...