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“Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.”
― Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education
― Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education
“The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.”
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“I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.”
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“When good Americans die, they go to Paris'.
'Where do bad Americans go?'
'They stay in America'.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
'Where do bad Americans go?'
'They stay in America'.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D'Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?”
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