"Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!"

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"Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!"

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"Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that's the light."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven."

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"Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?"

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven."

J. B. Priestley, British Writer

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"I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose."

Elinor Wylie, American Poet

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"Help thyself and Heaven will help thee."

Jean de La Fontaine, French Poet

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"Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?"

Beah Richards, American Actress

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"It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven."

Matthew Henry, English Clergyman

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"Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality."

Arnold Bennett, English Novelist

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"Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste."

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"How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering."

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"Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?"

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"Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony."

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"I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws."

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"Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!"

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"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust."

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