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  1. Elizabeth Gilbert _ City of Girls

    ...we can't just follow Paris for the sake of Paris.
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  2. Susan Vreeland _ Lisette's List

    If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal"
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  3. Victor Hugo _ The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

    Paris, viewed from the towers of Notre Dame in the cool dawn of a summer morning, is a delectable and a magnificent sight; and the Paris of that period must have been eminently so.
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  4. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
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  5. Victor Hugo _ The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

    He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he looked full in the face that society from which he was banished, and into which he had so powerfully intervened; that human justice from which he had snatched its prey; all those tigers whose jaws perforce remained empty; those myrmidons, those judges, those executioners, all that royal power which he, poor, insignificant being, had foiled with the power of God.
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  6. Victor Hugo _ William Shakespeare

    God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
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  7. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    If you ask the great city, 'Who is this person?,' she will answer, 'He is my child.
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  8. Victor Hugo _ The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

    Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again in imagination the Paris of the fifteenth century; look at the light through that surprising host of steeples, towers, and belfries; pour forth amid the immense city, break against the points of its islands, compress within the arches of the bridges, the current of the Seine, with its large patches of green and yellow, more changeable than a serpent's skin; define clearly the Gothic profile of this old Paris upon an horizon of azure, make its contour float in a wintry fog which clings to its innumerable chimneys; drown it in deep night, and observe the extraordinary play of darkness and light in this sombre labyrinth of buildings; throw into it a ray of moonlight, which shall show its faint outline and cause the huge heads of the towers to stand forth from amid the mist; or revert to that dark picture, touch up with shade the thousand acute angles of the spires and gables, and make them stand out, more jagged than a shark's jaw, upon the copper-coloured sky of evening. Now compare the two.
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  9. Stephanie Perkins _ Anna and the French Kiss

    Just imagine! In the early nineteenth century, this cathedral was in such a state of disrepair that the city considered tearing it down. Luckily for us, Victor Hugo heard about the plans to destroy it and wrote to raise awareness of its glorious history. And, by golly, did it work! Parisians campaigned to save it, and the building was repaired and polished to the pristine state you find today.
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  10. James Baldwin _ Giovanni's Room

    I stared at absurd Paris, which was as cluttered now, under the scalding sun, as the landscape of my heart.
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  11. James Baldwin _ Another Country

    It's a great city, Paris, a beautiful city––and––it was very good for me.
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  12. James Baldwin _ Giovanni's Room

    We had bought a kilo of cherries and we were eating them as we walked along. We were both insufferably childish and high-spirited that afternoon and th spectacle we presented, two grown men, jostling each other on the wide sidewalk, and aiming the cherry-pips, as though they were spitballs, into each other's facesm must have been outrageous. And I realized that such childishness was fantastic at my age and the happiness out of which it sprang yet more so; for that moment I really loved Giovanni, who had never seemed more beautiful than he was that afternoon. And, watching his face, I realized that it meant much to me that I could make his face so bright. I saw that I might be willing to give a great deal not to lose that power. And I felt myself flow toward him, as a river rushes when the ice breaks up.
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