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

"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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"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."


"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come."


"If they had had a different neighbour, one less sel-absorbed and more concerned for others, a man of normal, charitable instincts, their desperate state would not have gone unnoticed, their distress-signals would have been heard, and perhaps they would have been rescued by now. Certainly they appeared utterly depraved, corrupt, vile and odious; but it is rare for those who have sunk so low not to be degraded in the process, and there comes a point, moreover, where the unfortunate and the infamous are grouped together, merged in a single, fateful world. They are les misA©rables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need for charity?"
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