The fact that in the 1970s and 1980s reputable, mainstream politicians openly discussed programmes for voluntary assisted repatriation that were aimed exclusively at non-white immigrants demonstrates the extent to which the political aether
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“Every girl needs Paris.”
― The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde
― The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde
“It is possible to act in strict accordance with God’s law and with one’s conscience, you comprehend, and still to encounter difficulties and tragedy. It is the painful truth that we still do not know why le bon Dieu allows evil to exist, but we have His word for it that this is true.”
― Outlander
― Outlander
“The greatest pleasure does not consist in experiencing new things, but in savoring the infinite variation of what we already know”
― Flâneur: The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris
― Flâneur: The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris
“He had thought that apart from the obvious signifiers of architecture and weather and language, all European cities were much the same, but Paris had proved him wrong. It was quite unlike anywhere else he had ever lived.”
― Europe in Winter
― Europe in Winter
“More than any other city, [Paris] has entered the paintings and the novels of those under its sway, so that representation and reality reflect each other like a pair of facing mirrors, and walking Paris is often described as reading, as though the city itself were a huge anthology of tales. It exerts a magnetic attraction over its citizens and its visitors, for it has always been the capital of refugees and exiles as well as of France.”
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
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