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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

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PIERRE BAYLE There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first auth...
PIERRE BAYLE It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generati...
PIERRE BAYLE The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than...
PIERRE BOURDIEU It is still color, it is not yet light.
PIERRE BONNARD There's always some further action to take.
PIERRE BOULLE I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace wit...
PIERRE LAVAL A liar is always lavish of oaths.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Creativity is to think more efficiently
PIERRE REVERDY He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.
PIERRE LAPLACE By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction
PIERRE PACHET If it was an elective, you'd get twenty girls and three boys doing ballroom dancing. Girls want to d...
PIERRE DULAINE The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desir...
PIERRE BAYARD He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
PIERRE CORNEILLE And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
PIERRE CORNEILLE