"Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it."
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Tourists in Paris, from Outside: Selected Writings (1984).
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Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Donnadieu (April 4 1914 – March 3 1996), better known as Marguerite Duras, was a French writer and film director.
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