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"We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise."
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"I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there."
"Paradise will be a kind of library."
"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."
"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."
"There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo."
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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."
"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."
"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."
"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."
"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."
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