"Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand."
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"Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise."
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"It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all had at some moment. Some of us experienced it first as a condemnation, later transformed into consciousness and action. The search for the present is neither the pursuit of an earthly paradise nor that of a timeless eternity: it is the search for a real reality."
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"Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent."
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"What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?"
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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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"Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it."
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"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."
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"Paradise is to love many things with a passion."
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"So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana."
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"Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a single small volume, I always chose Milton."
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"If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars."
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"We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise."
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"We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed."
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"Kisses are the remnants of paradise."
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"God is a fixed paradise; man should be a paradise in motion."
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"If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home."
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"The only paradise is paradise lost."
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"The space of the bow of any one of you in Paradise is better than all that the sun rises upon."
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"The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment."
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