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“Crack, crackcrack, crackcrack, crackso this is Paris! quoth I (continuing in the same mood)and this is Paris!humph!Paris! cried I, repeating the name the third time The first, the finest, the most ...”
“I had walked over to the window and was looking down at the rails of the Montmartre funicular, the gardens of the Sacr Cur and, further off, the whole of Paris, with its lights, its roofs, its shad...”
“It's pronounced wee but spelled O-U-I. It's all you'll want to say when you're sitting at one of the thousands of little cafes that line the streets and you're looking at a menu full of foods you j...”
“The street sprinkler went past and, as its rasping rotary broom spread water over the tarmac, half the pavement looked as if it had been painted with a dark stain. A big yellow dog had mounted a ti...”
“Have you ever been to Paris before?" I asked Kylian."No, though from what I've seen, I'm sure it's worth a trip. And even with what little I saw I think it's quite fitting for you to be the Patrone...”
“In Paris, you couldnt really turn around without seeing the result of lovers bad decisions. An artist given to sexual excess was almost a clich, but no one seemed to mind. As long as you were makin...”
“As the shabby section of the audience rose to its feet, waving its hats and food-wrappers, a rich, stale smell wafted through the auditorium. It had something of the fog on the boulevard outside, w...”
“I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over rooftops in the distance on the other side of the river. I've seen it in photographs a thousand t...”
“In those days, long before, a view over the rooftops of Paris was an unaffordable luxury. The apartment he had shared with a mousy young writer from Laon had a view of the Jardin de Luxembourg if ...”
“...but you drank your black coffee by choice, believeng that Paris was sufficient alcohol.”
“The sun finally died in beauty, flinging out its crimson flames, which cast their reflection on the faces of passers-by, giving them a strangely feverish look. The darkness of the trees became deep...”
“Night came on, the lamps were lighted, the tables near him found occupants, and Paris began to wear that peculiar evening look of hers which seems to say, in the flare of windows and theatre-doors,...”
“If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memoires!”
“The last time I saw Paris.Her heart was warm and gay.”
“She was ready to be a fugitive with him for the rest of her life - 'Whither thou goest, I will go; thy people shall be my people' - and when a Parisienne is ready to leave Paris behind forever, tha...”
“Paris was all so... Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all - the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Child...”
“Summer fell upon Paris, with everyone still intently following his own subterranean course of passion or habit and looking up like a startled creature of the night at the blazing June sun. Now, all...”
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
“To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!”
“The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-seekers who had succeeded in stealing a throne required a reign of adventures, shady transactions, s...”
