Tag: paris
#335: Candles
‘When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.’ – George R.R. Martin
#326: Notre Dame
‘The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation’s effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius…’ – Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
#323: Avenue des Champs-Élysées
‘He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.’ – Victor Hugo
#322: Père Lachaise cemetery
‘The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais
#321: Off season
‘Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.’ – Victor Hugo
#280: The Seine
‘You’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.’ – E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
#171: Padlocks
‘I want you to give her a possibility. And that’s what a key represents. An open door, a chance. – Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key Old photo from Pont des Arts in Paris…
#97: Notre Dame de Paris
‘Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again in imagination the Paris of the fifteenth century…define clearly the Gothic profile of this old Paris upon an horizon of azure, make its contour float in a wintry fog which clings to its innumeral chimneys.’ – Victor… Continue reading #97: Notre Dame de Paris
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