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“He called him (it was always a man) a flâneur. “The crowd is his habitat, as air is for the bird or water for the fish,” he wrote. “His passion and his profession is to wed the crowd. . . . To be away from home, but to feel oneself everywhere at home.”
― The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
― The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
“Yet he continued to return to his core principle: that, in every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to confront the facts. Only through knowing could a person become strong. The”
― Men Without Women
― Men Without Women
“The desire to come apart irrevocably will always be as strong as, if not stronger than, the drive to establish oneself.”
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“Paris . . . is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers, to those capable of amusing themselves in its streets without regard to time when urgent business requires their presence elsewhere. —”
― The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
― The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
“An American writer who had come to visit France . . . asked quite naturally what it was that had kept me here so long. . . It was useless to answer him in words. I suggested instead that we take a stroll through the streets. —HENRY MILLER ON LIVING IN PARIS”
― The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
― The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
Christopher’s 2025 Year in Books
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