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Paradise Quotes

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"The only paradise is paradise lost."
Marcel Proust
"The only paradise is paradise lost."
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"No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us."
David Hilbert
"No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us."
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"Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise."
Christopher Columbus
"Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise."
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"Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again."
Samuel Johnson
"Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again."
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"Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts."
Voltaire
"Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts."
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"To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in."
Charles Godfrey Leland
"To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in."
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"Paradise is too perfect for humanity."
Dario Argento
"Paradise is too perfect for humanity."
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"Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise."
Novalis
"Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise."
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"The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?"
Hugo Ball
"The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?"
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"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better."
Laurie Anderson
"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better."
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"I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there."
Charles de Secondat
"I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there."
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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."
Ray Conniff
"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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"If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."
Nikita Khrushchev
"If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."
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"Your library is your paradise."
Desiderius Erasmus
"Your library is your paradise."
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"Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies."
George Santayana
"Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies."
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"Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise."
George William Russell
"Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise."
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"A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell."
Esther Dyson
"A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell."
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"Paradise is open to all kind hearts."
Pierre Jean de Beranger
"Paradise is open to all kind hearts."
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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."
W. H. Auden
"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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"Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out."
Jean Paul
"Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out."
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"Move to California. Malibu is paradise."
David Geffen
"Move to California. Malibu is paradise."
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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
Jorge Luis Borges
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
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"I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell."
Jean Rostand
"I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell."
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"We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise."
Simone Weil
"We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise."
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"It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste."
Evelyn Waugh
"It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste."
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"There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo."
Erma Bombeck
"There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo."
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"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape."
John Lancaster Spalding
"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape."
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"If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."
Nikita Khrushchev
"If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."
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"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."
John Berry
"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."
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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."
Doug Larson
"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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"Make your paradise here on earth, your own little paradise."
Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Make your paradise here on earth, your own little paradise."
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"In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws."
Emile M. Cioran
"In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws."
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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."
Jean Baudrillard
"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 you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise."
Camille Claudel
"If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise."
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"The best way to earn paradise in the afterlife is to create it in your life and in the life of your neighbor."
Bangambiki Habyarimana
"The best way to earn paradise in the afterlife is to create it in your life and in the life of your neighbor."
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"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."
Victor Hugo
"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."
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"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."
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