French Romanticism

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    I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
    Charles Bukowski (1920–1994)