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"Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it."
"The only possible paradises are those we have lost"
"The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost."
"But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs."
"I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves."
"He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good key."
"If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief."
"Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise"
"Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter."
"Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me."
"I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library."
"Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library."
"Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in their exploration of the tenuous nature of human relations. These are poignant stories of 'paradise'-Hawai'i-with all that 'paradise' entails of the transience of sensuous beauty."
"Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it."
"I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried."
"I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise."
