"There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise."
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"I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia."
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"Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik."
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"But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green."
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"In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary."
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"The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise."
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"The longing for paradise is paradise itself."
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"Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated."
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"Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise."
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"Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise."
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"The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-."
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"All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!"
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"It's a paradise that we are going to go into, because to be in the presence of God itself will be a paradise."
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"Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us."
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"The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell."
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"There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back."
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"You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them."
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"Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!"
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"Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow."
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"Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute."
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