Absence Quote by Marguerite Duras

“Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least.…

— Marguerite Duras

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

— Michael Simkins

No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.

— John Vinocur

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

— Charles Baudelaire

Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history, its geography…

— Nina Berberova

That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.

— Marion Cotillard

Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.

— Anais Nin

Paris is one of the most incredible places to live. Once you get bitten by the city, you never leave.

— Peter Dundas

Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living…

— Victor Hugo

“Paris . . . is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers, to those capable…

— Elaine Sciolino

You can leave Paris, but when you come back, you discover it again.

— Jeanne Damas