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paris Quotes

12 of the best book quotes about paris
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“Paris, a city so perilously close to the war, became a refuge for artists throughout the 1920s.”
Paul Brody
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The Real Midnight in Paris
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“It’s like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction – every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it’s really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier.”
Esther Greenwood
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“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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“I’ve seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”
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“None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom or indifference over his inward joy.”
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“The burden of restoring the nation’s pride and prominence in the wake of the Paris exposition had fallen upon Chicago.”
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“In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.”
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“Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with Gabriel, her female-impersonator uncle.”
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“An engaging story about a gang of children in a poor district of Paris after World War 2. Some good characters, including a strong female lead.”
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“Jerome Barberin lives with his wife in a little French town, Chavanon. He usually works in Paris as a mason. One day he finds a baby boy in Paris.”
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Linnea and Mr. Bloom take a trip to Paris to see where Claude Monet lived and painted.
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Linnea has visited Claude Monet’s garden! In Paris, she got to see many of his actual paintings. Now she understands what it means for a painter to be called an Impressionist.

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