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Paradise Quotes
"No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us."
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"In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws."
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"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."
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"Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again."
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"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."
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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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"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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"If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."
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"To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in."
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"There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo."
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"If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."
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"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."
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"We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise."
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"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."
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"I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there."
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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."
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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
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