En boca 5
– Calligramme de Guillaume Apollinaire
– Calligramme de Guillaume Apollinaire
For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.
Les Diaboliques (1883), Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly.
Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.
Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to?
Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.
A Woman of No Importance (1893), Oscar Wilde.
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
Angela Carter, novelista británica.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
A Moveable Feast (París era una fiesta, 1964), Ernest Hemingway
Whereas London, through the ages, has always betrayed clearly male orientations, and New York has a certain ambivalence, has any sensible person ever doubted that Paris is fundamentally a woman?
Seven Ages of Paris (2004), Alistair Horne.