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Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in he...

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Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in he...

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Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in he...

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Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in he...

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Paris that eternal monstrous marvel … the city of a hundred-thousand novels … a living creature, the...

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Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

Paris, however―because of her purely fortuitous beauty, because of the old things which have become ...

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I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the...

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Every year when i travel around the world, i wonder if it’ll be diferent, maybe one year won’t come ...

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Crack, crack—crack, crack—crack, crack—so this is Paris! quoth I (continuing in the same mood)—and t...

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Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

Of course the people in the metro didn't see a thing!...what a joke! petrified ratlets! but they'll ...

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We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner.

Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes...

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Marguerite DurasOutside: Selected Writings

I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my hear...

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Ernst was still in the Eastern Zone, about ninety kilometres from Berlin, when the truck emerged so ...

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It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my ad...

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Paris has always seemed ... the only city where you can live and express yourself as you please.

I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison...

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But one gets tired of everything, even of abusing a person. Paris abandons its puppets which it rais...

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The last time I saw Paris.Her heart was warm and gay.

When good Americans die, they go to Paris.

I had walked over to the window and was looking down at the rails of the Montmartre funicular, the g...

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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or ju...

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too ...

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If the king had given me for my ownParis, his citadel,And I for that must leave aloneHer whom I love...

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A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a w...

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Robert Barr (writer)The Mystery of the Five Hundred Diamonds

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fac...

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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to ...

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Wie Gott in Frankreich'' was the expression used by the Jews of Eastern Europe to describe perfect h...

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I have always had a weakness for footnotes. For me a clever or a wicked footnote has redeemed many a...

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The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.

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Simone de BeauvoirMemoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

At night I would climb the steps to the Sacre-Coeur, and I would watch Paris, that futile oasis, sci...

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Simone de BeauvoirMemoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, v...

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Stephen FryThe Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the br...

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[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, ...

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Tom WolfeThe Bonfire of the Vanities

He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo.Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is...

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Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city...

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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second ...

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To err his human, to stroll is Parisian.

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

To breath the air of Paris preserves the soul.

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

If you ask the great city, ‘Who is this person?,’ she will answer, ‘He is my child.

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

Many people in Paris are quite content to look on at others, and there are plenty who regard a wall ...

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Victor HugoThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame

He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he look...

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Paris, viewed from the towers of Notre Dame in the cool dawn of a summer morning, is a delectable an...

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Victor HugoThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Lend your ear then to this tutti of steeples; diffuse over the whole the buzz of half a million of h...

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Victor HugoThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again ...

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There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—t...

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Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the d...

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The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-see...

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In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

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Émile ZolaThe Attack on the Mill and Other Stories

The whole of Paris was lit up. The tiny dancing flames had bespangled the sea of darkness from end t...

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Hélène, her eyes once more raised and remote, was deep in a dream. She was Lady Rowena, she was in l...

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Hélène slowly surveyed the room. In this respectable society, amongst these apparently decent middle...

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Hitler was the archetype of the abstemious man. When the other krauts saw him drink water in the Bee...

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At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it...

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At five o'clock Paris always has a current of eroticism in the air.

Valentino made my day suit for the wedding of Paloma Picasso in Paris.

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

...But still, even now, to think of it, I feel something akin to that happiness. And I've more reaso...

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Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed...

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Anne RiceInterview with the Vampire

I love to watch cities wake up, and Paris wakes up more abruptly, more startlingly, than any place I...

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Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

Vampires took offense SO easily—and Parisian vampires were the worst of all.' - The Runaway Queen (T...

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Certainly there were places of greater natural beauty—but Paris but UNNATURAL beauty, which was argu...

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One did not turn down an invitation from Saint Cloud. At least, one didn't if one wanted to continue...

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The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

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Charles BaudelaireFlowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies : A Dual-Language Book (Dover Foreign Language Study Guides)

Il était tard; ainsi qu'une médaille neuveLa pleine lune s'étalait,Et la solennité de la nuit, comme...

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Let's just go in and enjoy ourselves,' Yvonne had said after a long moment when the Hitchens family ...

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I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.

For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, s...

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Craig FergusonBetween the Bridge and the River

Sunday is God's day, and he was committed to honoring it. Just because he was in Paris to compete in...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price,...

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David SedarisWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames

#Outlander QOTD Claire and Master Raymond.Snapped abruptly to a realization of how rudely I had been...

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Snapped abruptly to a realization of how rudely I had been staring, I blushed and said without think...

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To accuse the American male of not bathing in Paris is merely to flatter him.

And trade is art, and art's philosophy,In Paris.

Below Les Avants there was a chalet where the pension was wonderful and where we would be together a...

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I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you ...

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The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each...

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I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting ...

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To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there wa...

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The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no ...

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The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on...

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For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit’s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been wor...

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of ...

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Ernest HemingwayA Moveable Feast

If I walked down by different streets to the Jardin du Luxembourg in the afternoon I could walk thro...

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Ernest HemingwayA Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Hem, you know I don't think that owner's wife where you live likes me. She wouldn't let me wait upst...

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Ernest HemingwayA Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

My wife and I had called on Miss Stein, and she and the friend who lived with her had been very cord...

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Ernest HemingwayA Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

The blue-backed notebooks, the two pencils and the pencil sharpener (a pocket knife was too wasteful...

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Ernest HemingwayA Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor ...

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Ernest HemingwayA Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for ...

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Summer fell upon Paris, with everyone still intently following his own subterranean course of passio...

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.

The street sprinkler went past and, as its rasping rotary broom spread water over the tarmac, half t...

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