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[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.
(Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian novelist, dramatist, philosopher. Meursault describes Paris to his fiancee, in The Stranger, p. 65, Gallimard (1942).)
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When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.
(Prince Metternich (1773-1859), Austrian statesman. Comment, 1830. attributed, in A Dictionary of Historical Quotations, eds. Alan and Veronica Palmer (1985).)
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There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.
(Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), Dutch painter. Letter, Summer 1886, to an English artist considering a move to Paris. The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, vol. 2 (1958).
Van Gogh adds, "What is to be gained is progress and what[ever] the deuce that is, it is to be found here.")
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I fasted for some forty days on bread and buttermilk
For passing round the bottle with girls in rags or silk,
In country shawl or Paris cloak, had put my wits astray,
And what's the good of women for all that they can say
Is fol de rol de rolly O.
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "The Pilgrim.")
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The last time I saw Paris
Her heart was warm and gay.
(Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960), U.S. songwriter. "The Last Time I Saw Paris," Lady Be Good, T.B. Harms Co. (1940).
Music composed by Jerome Kern (1885-1945).)
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C'est ΰ Paris que je me coiffe
Casque noir de jemenfoutiste.
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.-born—British poet, critic. "Mιlange Adultθre de Tout.")
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
(Honorι De Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist. In The Works of Honorι de Balzac, vol. IV, trans. by George Saintsbury (1971). Narrator, in Pierrette, originally named Pierrette Lorrain, in Le Siθcle (1840); included in the Comιdie humaine as a Scθne de la Vie de Province (1843).)
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Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
(Willa Cather (1876-1947), U.S. novelist. Willa Cather in Europe, ch. 11 (1956).
Written on September 3, 1902.)
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