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"Paradise will be a kind of library."
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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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"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal."
"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."
"I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces."
"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
"Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly."
"There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music."
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