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		I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Michelangelo 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				B. B. King 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				H. P. Lovecraft 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Abraham Lincoln 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Valerie Plame 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				N. T. Wright 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Paracelsus 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		O, human love! thou spirit given,On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Edgar Allan Poe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I want to cry out to these young girls: Stop! Think! . . . For heaven's sake, don't fall down the rabbit hole of the lesbian scene. You will never escape, and your talent will wither on the vine. Your energy will be wasted and absorbed in repetition without progression. Women alone are Spenser's Bower of Bliss, enclosed, comfortable, and dangerous. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Camille Paglia 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If I get to Heaven, which I very much doubt, I will ask of God just one thing, and that is to send Shakespeare back down to earth, and make him sit a University of Madras examination in Shakespeare, just for the pleasure of watching him failing the exam. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Malcolm Muggeridge 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Within your magic web of hair, lies furledThe fire and splendour of the ancient world;The dire gold of the comet's wind-blown hair;The songs that turned to gold the evening airWhen all the stars of heaven sang for joy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Edith Sitwell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		...Stevens does not think of inspiration (or whatever you want to call it) as a condition of composition. He too is waiting for the spark from heaven to fall-poets have no choice about this-but he waits writing; and this-other things being equal, when it’s possible, if it’s possible-is the best way for a poet to wait. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Randall Jarrell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The praising thy mercy. There hath not been here; O supreme Ruler; There hath not been; there will not be, One so good as the Lord. There hath not been born in the day of the people Any one equal to God. And no one will acknowledge Any one equal to him. Above heaven, below heaven, There is no Ruler but he. Above sea, below sea, He created us. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Taliesin