Paradise Quotes
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Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.
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If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship here. But our manners are not getting better.
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The Jewish Talmud says that the righteous peoples have an equal place in paradise. The Christians and Muslims agree in rejecting that; they claim that they are the fortunate recipients of God's final message and those who accepted will go to heaven and those who rejected go to hell. So there is a long struggle between the Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, which in effect was Christendom. This was the perceived enemy. And this has inevitably colored the perception of everything else.
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So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.
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A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.
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Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.
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Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.
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As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
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A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.
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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Fairyland...Paradise...In this place and at this time, Marguerite could know that the one was a parable of the other and both were synonyms for something that had no name.
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Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.
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Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
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You can't live in paradise—but you are living right here. Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really.
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The path to paradise begins in hell.
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Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.
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The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.
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Speak Little. Learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.
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It has come quickly, this crushing, industrial love of paradise. The pervert-free, less-trammeled, hundred-mile-view days were little more than two decades past, not so very long ago. Yet already my own history sounds like another country.
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Sinatra’s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn’t know it, but he’d be better off if it were the other way around.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
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Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.
