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A curated selection of quotations and images drawn from a longer travel narrative, presenting fragmentary, evocative observations of foreign landscapes, domestic objects, rituals, and social manners. The excerpts juxtapose concise sensory descriptions with introspective reflections on loneliness, habit, and the search for change, often noting small details that reveal cultural difference. Arranged for quick reading, the compilation highlights memorable turns of phrase and visual moments that convey mood more than continuous plot. Occasional captions and brief context anchor the quotations without imposing extended commentary.

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Title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti

Author: Pierre Loti

Editor: David Widger

Release date: July 13, 2009 [eBook #7579]
Most recently updated: December 30, 2020

Language: English

Credits: This eBook was produced by David Widger

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CHRYSANTHEME



By Pierre Loti













Ah! the natural perversity of inanimate
things

Contemptuous pity, both for my
suspicions and the cause of them

Dull hours spent in idle and diffuse
conversation

Efforts to arrange matters we succeed
often only in disarranging

Found nothing that answered to my
indefinable expectations

Habit turns into a makeshift of
attachment

I know not what lost home that I have
failed to find

Irritating laugh which is peculiar to
Japan

Japanese habit of expressing myself
with excessive politeness

Ordinary, trivial, every-day objects

Prayers swallowed like pills by
invalids at a distance

Seeking for a change which can no
longer be found

Trees, dwarfed by a Japanese process

When the inattentive spirits are not
listening

Which I should find amusing in any one
else,--any one I loved


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