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“He called him (it was always a man) a flâneur. “The crowd is his habitat, as air is for the bird or water for the fish,” he wrote. “His passion and his profession is to wed the crowd. . . . To be away from home, but to feel oneself everywhere at home.”
― The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
― The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
“Everybody knows deep down that life is as much about the things that do not happen as the things that do and that’s not something that ought to be glossed over or denied because without frustration there would hardly be any need to daydream.”
― Pond
― Pond
“The desire to come apart irrevocably will always be as strong as, if not stronger than, the drive to establish oneself.”
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“Does anyone really think that French teenagers, per the academy’s diktat, are going to trade out sexting for sending textos pornographiques? It’s”
― When in French: Love in a Second Language
― When in French: Love in a Second Language
“Paris . . . is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers, to those capable of amusing themselves in its streets without regard to time when urgent business requires their presence elsewhere. —”
― The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
― The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
Christopher’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Christopher’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Biography, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Science fiction, Thriller, and Travel
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