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Quote by Bertrand Delanoë
Dans l’identité de la France, Paris est à la fois une mémoire et une espérance.
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The sentence presents Paris as part of how France understands itself. Calling it “a memory” points to the past held in the city’s identity, while “a hope” points toward what is still imagined or desired. Paris therefore connects remembrance with expectation within the idea of France.
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“Român e țăranul, eu sunt boier moldovan.”
“This, and whatsoever I myself observed, after attaining years of discretion, for thirty or forty years, I laid up in the strong box (of my memory), and that I have written.”
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“Аз съм дълбоко убеден, че каузата на България не е загубена.”
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“Adisomad itu saya rasa sebuah nama yang universal.”
“Coke Studio was the way to reinvent and rediscover the field of music in Pakistan.”
A Box, Then a Door
Seventeen-year-old Elia expects a tidy catalog, but a box of undelivered letters leads her into the living memory of a harbor town—and toward a new way of helping people speak.
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