Popular memory may be short, but it is nothing compared with the amnesia of experts.* * *
What truly makes Paris beautiful is the intermingling of the monumental and the personal, the abstract and the footsore particular, it and you...The passage from the big to the little is what makes Paris beautiful, and you have to be prepared to be small - to live, to trudge, to have your head down in melancholy and then lift it up, sideways - to get it.
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