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Simone Weil

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

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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."

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

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"Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise."

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

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"A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell."

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

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"Paradise is open to all kind hearts."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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"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."
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