

“Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D'Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?”
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“I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while.”
― Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light
― Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light

“Study is the child of silence and mystery.”
― The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter: Scenes de la Vie de Boheme
― The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter: Scenes de la Vie de Boheme
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