The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.
My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values.
I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris.
My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young.
I've been to Bali twice and Marrakech twice. I thought Vienna was great. I will take girlfriends to places they've never been before.
Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.
For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.
Berlin is my favourite city.
No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.
If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.
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