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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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“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
“Paris was the cross-roads of the world.”
― The Wilder Shores of Love: The Exotic True-Life Stories of Isabel Burton, Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, Jane Digby, and Isabelle Eberhardt
― The Wilder Shores of Love: The Exotic True-Life Stories of Isabel Burton, Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, Jane Digby, and Isabelle Eberhardt
“Like a book on a shelf I'd waited years to open, Paris had always been waiting for me...”
― A Letter From Paris: A True Story of Hidden Art, Lost Romance, and Family Reclaimed
― A Letter From Paris: A True Story of Hidden Art, Lost Romance, and Family Reclaimed
“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
“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
Kathleen’s 2025 Year in Books
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