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Charles de Secondat

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

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"Paradise is open to all kind hearts."

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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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"Move to California. Malibu is paradise."

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

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

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"Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out."

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"Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise."

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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?"

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"The only paradise is paradise lost."

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"Power ought to serve as a check to power."
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"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner."
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"But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go."
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