Jean Paul Quotes
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Jean Paul
Quotes to Explore
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
A. Scott Berg
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I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.
Malachy McCourt
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
Abu Bakr
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
Daniel Boone
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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
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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
Damian Lewis
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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
Rand Paul
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I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.
Barbara Kruger
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When you're throwing the football the way you want to, you're not thinking about it. You're not thinking about your drop or your release point or the trajectory or where your feet are. It's just coming off your hand exactly the way you want it to, fluid and confident.
Aaron Rodgers
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The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
Dag Hammarskjold
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What is there in 'Paradise Lost' to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Pass in, pass in, the angels say, In to the upper doors; Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to Paradise By the stairway of surprise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Pleasant to bring back the divisions of a parish; Also pleasant to us the time of paradise. Pleasant, the moon, a luminary in the heavens; Also pleasant where there is a good rememberer.
Taliesin
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No thought for the hereafter have the wise, for on this very earth they live in paradise
Angelus Silesius
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You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.
Aldous Huxley
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You'd be so nice, You'd be paradise To come home to and love.
Cole Porter
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A good team needs time to play together.
Kristaps Porzingis
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To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.
Charles Godfrey Leland
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For a boy of ten, used to the coal bings and rust-coloured burns of Cowdenbeath, the fields and woodland of Kingswood, with its overgrown but stately avenue of copper-barked sequoias, felt like a local version of paradise.
John Burnside
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I'm not anti-Jew. Jews are respected by everyone, like all human beings, and I respect them very much.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.
Jaime Pressly
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I want to do more sci-fi films. I want to play half-alien, half-illegal alien.
Michael Pena
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Jean Paul
