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"The only paradise is paradise lost."
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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."
"In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws."
"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."
"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."
"Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again."
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"For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits."
"We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening."
"We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening. The truth which one puts into one's words does not carve out a direct path for itself, it is not irresistibly self-evident. A considerable time must elapse before a truth of the same order can take shape in them."
"No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice."
"The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it."
"The real propaganda is what-if we are genuinely a living member of a nation-we tell ourselves because we have hope, hope being a symbol of a nation's instinct of self-preservation. To remain blind to the unjustness of the cause of the individual "Germany," to recognise at every moment the justness of the cause of the individual "France," the surest way was not for a German to be without judgement, or for a Frenchman to possess it, it was, both for the one and for the other, to be possessed of patriotism."
"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."
"My dears, laugh at me if you like; it is not conventionally beautiful, but there is something in its quaint old face which pleases me. If it could play the piano, I am sure it would really play."
"An excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts."
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