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"Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies."
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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."

"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."

"I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there."

"There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo."

"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."

"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."
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"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."

"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."

"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."

"It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to."

"My atheism like that of Spinoza is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests."

"If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics."
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