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It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Men
Be A Man
Seems
Man Me Will
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And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Desert
Sand
Corner
Mournful
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Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Painting
Faithfully
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Holy Istanbul! Your name is the most enchanting one of all names which enchants me.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Enchanting
Istanbul
Names
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My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Emotion
Endeavor
Force
Inept
Interpret
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I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Museums
My Time
Periods
Remember
Absorb
Museum
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Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Fossils
Mystery
Prehistoric
Study
Creations
Initiated
Mysteries
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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.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Air
Cat
Winter
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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 we belonged to different generations.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Sister
Brother
Different
Generations
Belonged
Considerably
Seemed
Spoken
Whom
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The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Desert
Sphinx
Confronted
Contemporaries
Passed
Pyramid
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My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Book
Covered
Draws
Ink
Tasks
Idly
Pictures
Sketches
Stained
Task
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I was at that time like a fledgling swallow living high up in a niche in the eaves, who from time to time peeps out over the top of its nest with its little bright eyes.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Niche
Bright
From Time To Time
Nest
Swallow
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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 resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Land
Moon
Shining
Silver
Bright
Lands
Ours
Resembles
Surely
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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 more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Desire
Missionary
Transformed
Wish
Minister
Slow
Recall
Slow Process
Suddenly
Surprised
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Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Home
Country
Peaceful
Provinces
Sight
Distant
Pass
Returning
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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, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Antiquity
Astonishment
Egypt
Fascination
Hesitation
Magazines
Mysterious
Illustrated
Immediately
Magazine
Recognized
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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 had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Determination
Prayer
Vow
God Myself Me
Held
Minister
Pledged
Prayers
Seemed
Therefore
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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.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Men
Children
Growing Up
Men And Women
Terror
Men Women Today
Eager
Women Men Today
Unlike
More And More
Speedily
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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 old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Agonizing
Diabolical
Eight
Fever
Illness
Memories
Scarlet
Years
Impressions
Memory
Seemed
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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 it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Ocean
Children
Country
Longing
Monotonous
Mountain
Provinces
Central
Eagerly
Surrounding
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I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Sad
Careless
Children
Habitual
Happenings
Happy Day
Impression
Joyous
Mind
Rare
Happy Days
Just Because
Recall
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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 had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Dear
Memories
Mother
Sunday
Apart
Associated
Every Sunday
Memory
Pew
Regularly
So Many Years
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Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Appreciation
Cat
Deception
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But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Aids
Appearance
Climax
Darkness
Giving
Obscurity
Panorama
Real
Scene
Vision
Clearer
Depicted
Entrance
For Example
Prepares
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I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Consciousness
Delicious
June
Midst
One Day
Past
Secret
Self
Terror
Alone Myself Me
Entangled
Explain
Recall
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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 on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen - sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Animal
Cat
Writing
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