“As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.”
“When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.”
“Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.”
“Ninety-three" was the war of Europe against France, and of France against Paris. And what was the Revolution? It was the victory of France over Europe, and of Paris over France. Hence the immensity of that terrible moment?, '93, greater than all the rest of the century”
“It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.”