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"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."
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"Paradise will be a kind of library."
"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."
"Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again."
"Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other."
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