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"I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated."
"This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always."
"Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?"
"Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit."
"Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!"
"There ain't no place like paradise."
"The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine."
"Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return."
"The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it."
"We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty."
"A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb."
"The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created."
"The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise."
"If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell."
"Travel is a fools paradise."
"Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise."
"Paradise is where I am"
"It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion."
"Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude."
"If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise."
