Paradise Quotes
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...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.
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...wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
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So we'll see you in Paradise?
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The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
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The Travel Channel had success with their 'Food Paradise' series, '10 Best Places to Pig Out' and those types of specials, so they knew there was a market for comfort food and wanted to develop a show around it.
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The world where you would go hand in hand with the flower maiden has neither perfect happiness nor joy nor life. This is because it also does not contain perfect sadness nor misery nor death. What lies in waiting is a paradise for wolves alone, the unclean humans are no more...come with me Cheza, it is time.
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Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.
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If I could do just one thing to change the world, I'd make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.
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Paradise is full of idiots who believe it exists.
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The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
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To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.
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They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole.
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
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Anyone who dares to lay hands on the highest image of the Lord commits sacrilege against the benevolent creator of this miracle and contributes to the expulsion from paradise.
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Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.
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You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.
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Even paradise had its serpent.
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It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.
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When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.
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South Carolina is in the spring a paradise, in the summer a hell, and in the autumn a hospital.
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First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yath?bh?tam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.
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Paradise is a state of mind.
