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MERRY CHRISTMAS to all!

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LE MARAIS. Walking through the Marais, I think of literature seeping into its winding streets. Did Balzac pass through here when he composed his famous lines from Le Père Goriot : “Mais Paris est un véritable océan. Jetez-y la sonde, vous n'en connaîtrez jamais la profondeur. Parcourez-le, décrivez-le : quelque soin que vous mettiez à le parcourir, à le décrire ; quelques nombreux et intéressés que soient les explorateurs de cette mer, il s'y rencontrera toujours un lieu vierge, un antre inconnu, des fleurs, des perles, des monstres, quelque chose d'inouï, oublié par les plongeurs littéraires.” #igersparis #paris #euro_shots #france #ilovefrance #ig_france #topfrancephoto #igersfrance #france_vacations #jaimelafrance #tourismefrance #shoot2kill #exploreeverything #justgoshoot #instagood  #GotToLove_this #seizetheshot #worldplaces #dream_image #ig_recommend #mpa_mag #main_vision #click_vision #superhubs_souls #superhubs_shot #superhubs #superhubs_power #ig_ikeda

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JARDIN DE LUXEMBOURG. "L'être qui ne vient pas souvent à Paris ne sera jamais complètement élégant." -- Balzac #paris #parisjetaime #parismaville #parisfrance #euro_shots #france #ig_france #topfrancephoto #igersfrance #france_vacations #awesomebnw #bnw_magazine #bnw_captures #bnw_globe #universal_bnw #unopix_bnw #world_bnw #igersbnw #bwoftheday #monochrome #bw_lover #bw_society #blackandwhite #bw #mono #bnw #monoart #noirlovers #bnw_city  #europe_bnw

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SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY. The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you, said W. Somerset Maugham. And what of places and meanings they engender? #parismemanque #paris #parisjetaime #parismaville #parisfrance #idreamofparis #shakespeareandcompany #euro_shots #france #ilovefrance #architecture #ig_france #topfrancephoto #igersfrance #france_vacations #jaimelafrance

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THE POETRY OF FADING DAYLIGHT. The sky in San Francisco is rarely poetic. It ranges from pallid fog to flat blue, but last night I was struck by the orchestration of light and clouds as the day bled away beyond the Pacific. #sanfrancisco #bestofthebay  #bayarea #alwaysf #LurkSF #conquerthebay #conquer_SF #BestofBayarea #california #westcoast_exposures #WeOwnTheNight_Ca #california_igers #cali_scenes #cali_minimalism #cali #rawcalifornia #visitcalifornia #conquer_CA #norcal #northerncalifornia #main_vision #sunset_vision #click_vision #superhubs_souls #superhubs_shot #superhubs #superhubs_power #ig_ikeda

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Je crois que pour en faire une œuvre littéraire, il faut tout simplement rêver sa vie – un rêve où la mémoire et l’imagination se confondent.

Patrick Modiano

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All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. …Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.

Margaret Atwood, "The Blind Assassin"

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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Italo Calvino

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La foule préfère généralement la force anormale qui déborde à la force égale qui persiste.

Honoré de Balzac

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There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Lawrence Durrell

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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Oscar Wilde

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Remember that language is not the frosting, it’s the cake. Rhythmical language and vivid imagery possess a power of effect that is independent from content.

Tom Robbins

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You should always write with an erection. Even if you are a woman.

Tom Robbins

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Andor Novák. Femme Fatale. 1889

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Boris Ignatovich. The Atlanteans at the entrance of to the Hermitage. Leningrad, 1931

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Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci

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