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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
Author:
Simone Weil
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It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
Author:
Voltaire
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
Author:
William Thackeray
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As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
Author:
John Spalding
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
Author:
George Santayana
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Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
Author:
George Russell
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I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
Author:
Marcel Proust
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Author:
Jean Paul
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
Author:
Novalis
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To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.
Author:
Charles Leland
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Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.
Author:
Doug Larson
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If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Author:
Nikita Khrushchev
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If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Author:
Nikita Khrushchev
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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.
Author:
David Hilbert
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Move to California. Malibu is paradise.
Author:
David Geffen
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Your library is your paradise.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell.
Author:
Esther Dyson
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I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.
Author:
Ray Conniff
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Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
Author:
Christopher Columbus
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
Author:
Camille Claudel
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In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Author:
Jorge Borges
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There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
Author:
Erma Bombeck
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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
Author:
John Berry
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Paradise is open to all kind hearts.
Author:
Pierre Beranger
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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
Author:
Jean Baudrillard
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The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?
Author:
Hugo Ball
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
Author:
W. Auden
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Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
Author:
Dario Argento
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Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Author:
Laurie Anderson
