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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."

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

"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."

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

"If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."
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"I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"

"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."

"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."
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