Contemplating Quote by Victor Hugo

Paris presents one incessant round of amusement & dissipation but very little, I believe - even for its inhabitants of that society - which…

— John Marshall

“Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with…

— Anne Rice

I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.

— Isak Dinesen

...the bewildering beauty of Paris...

— Allen Ginsberg

If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.

— Matthew Arnold

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

— Karl Lagerfeld

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked and I…

— Denis Diderot

When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.

— Henry Miller

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“Will anyone understand it outside Paris? That is open to doubt. The special features of this scene, full of local colour and observations, can…

— Honoré de Balzac