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"We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise."
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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."

"If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."

"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."

"Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again."

"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."

"I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in."
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"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."


"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."


"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."


"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."


"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."
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