"One's emotions are intensified in Parisâ€”one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town."

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Source : Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.146, Vintage

Nancy Mitford

#Paris Quotes #Joy Quotes #Unhappy Quotes

“What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning.”
“A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.”
“The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.”
“But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important.”
“Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the directors eyes, you get it right does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.”
“The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.”
“A country song is a song about life.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death with its draconian curtailment of property and voting rights will become the biggest civil rights issue of all.”

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