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I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.
Author:
Robert Wyatt
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Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.
Author:
Jessamyn West
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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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But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
Author:
Barbara Walters
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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
Author:
Voltaire
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It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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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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We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.
Author:
Gloria Swanson
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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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An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
Author:
Robert South
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For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.
Author:
Howard Smith
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Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.
Author:
Matthew Simpson
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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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Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.
Author:
John Saul
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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
Author:
George Santayana
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
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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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Author:
Karl Popper
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
Author:
William Penn
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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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The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
Author:
Max Muller
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It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
Author:
Toni Morrison
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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
Author:
Arthur Miller
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When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.
Author:
Ziggy Marley
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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
Author:
Horace Mann
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It is in games that many men discover their paradise.
Author:
Robert Lynd
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The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God.
Author:
Alphonsus Liguori
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When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
Author:
Lawrence Lessig
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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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Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.
Author:
Frank Langella
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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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Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.
Author:
Ashley Judd
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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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Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.
Author:
John Jewel
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.
Author:
Thomas Howard
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Children are the keys of paradise.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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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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To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
Author:
Augustus Hare
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Move to California. Malibu is paradise.
Author:
David Geffen
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A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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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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On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.
Author:
John Dyer
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It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.
Author:
John Drinkwater
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Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
Author:
Tommy Douglas
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Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?
Author:
Julio Cortazar
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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 a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?
Author:
Samuel Coleridge
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Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
Author:
Paulo Coelho
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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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A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.
Author:
Arthur Boyd
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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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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
Author:
Abu Bakr
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
Author:
Abu Bakr
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He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.
Author:
Abu Bakr
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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
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
Author:
Amos Alcott
