Vincent van Gogh
Victor Maze “There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here…the French air clears up the brain and does one good.”
Lauren Elkin, Flâneuse
Victor Maze “The streets of Paris had a way of making me stop in my tracks, my heart suspended. They seemed saturated with presence, even if there was no one there but me. These were places where something could happen, or had happened, or both.”
King Henry IV
Victor Maze “Paris is well worth a Mass.”
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Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust
Victor Maze “Walking Paris is often described as reading, as though the city itself were a huge anthology of tales. It exerts a magnetic attraction over its citizens and its visitors, for it has always been the capital of refugees and exiles as well as of France.”
Lee Radziwill
Getty Images “When you see some sun, Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes.”
Elliot Paul
Victor Maze “The last time I see Paris will be on the day I die. The city was inexhaustible, and so is its memory.”
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T.S. Eliot
Getty Images “The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.”
Gertrude Stein
Getty Images “America is my country and Paris is my hometown.”
Thomas Jefferson
Getty Images “A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of life.”
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King Francis I
Getty Images “Paris is not a city; it’s a world.”
Henry Miller
Getty Images “To know Paris is to know a great deal.”
Ernest Hemingway
Getty Images "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."
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Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
Getty Images “When good Americans die they go to Paris.”
Ernest Hemingway
Getty Images “There are only two places in the world where we can live happy—at home and in Paris.”
Henry Miller
Getty Images "When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise."
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John Berger
Getty Images "Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman."
Julian Barnes
Getty Images “It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist’s studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.”
Natalie Lloyd
Getty Images “I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.”
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James Thurber
Getty Images “The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music. It is worth anyone’s while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in Everything.”
Napoléon Bonaparte
Getty Images “Secrets travel fast in Paris.”
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