“ The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret. ”
- Fred Allen- Copy
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“ In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
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“ Paris is a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. ”
- Chamfort- Copy
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“ Paris is a city of centralisation — and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point… ”
- Bram Stoker- Copy
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“ After you've lived in Paris for a while, you don't want to live anywhere, including Paris. ”
- John Ashbery- Copy
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“ Paris is like a whore. From a distance she seems ravishing, you can't wait until you have her in your arms. And five minutes later you feel empty, disgusted with yourself. You feel tricked. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles. ”
- Émile Zola- Copy
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“ Prince, give praise to our French ladies For the sweet sound their speaking carries; 'Twixt Rome and Cadiz many a maid is, But no good girl's lip out of Paris. - Algernon Charles Swinburne. ”
- Algernon Charles Swinburne- Copy
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“ There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even — the French air clears up the brain and does good — a world of good. ”
- Vincent van Gogh- Copy
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“ All strangers love her, will always find her fair,Because such elegance, such happiness,Will not be found in any town but this:Paris is beyond compare. ”
- Eustache Deschamps- Copy
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“ The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart). ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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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 your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
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“ Paris flared — Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice. ”
- Émile Zola- Copy
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“ Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. ”
- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort- Copy
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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 your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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