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“She is incredibly faithful, just not to the same man”
― Caroline de Maigret, How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits

“Take the time to take time because nobody else will do it for you.”
― Anne Berest, How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits

“Our very idea of productivity is premised on the idea of producing something new, whereas we do not tend to see maintenance and care as productive in the same way.”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

“Why do we feel sorry for people who can't travel? Because, unable to expand externally, they are not able to expand internally either, they can't multiply and so they are deprived of the possibility of undertaking expansive excursions in themselves and discovering who and what else they could have become.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon