Paradise Quotes
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There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they're so obviously garbage. But then there are so many more that continue to move me: the end of 'Paradise Lost,' 'The Ruined Cottage' by Wordsworth, Prospero's 'Our revels now are ended' speech near the end of 'The Tempest.'
Geoff Dyer
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We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty, Pleasure then our only duty. Floating them twixt heaven and Earth And drank on plenties blessed mirth We thought ourselves eternal then, Our glory sealed by God’s own pen. But paradise, we found is always frail, Against man’s fear will always fail.
Veronica Franco
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England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
John Florio
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Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.
Emil Cioran
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo
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Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.
Eliphas Levi
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God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
Samuel Johnson
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Move to California. Malibu is paradise.
David Geffen
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A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by the end of the class that I never wanted to see it again.
Karin Slaughter
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The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.
Dionne Warwick
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I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, as I do now, it's a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people. It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
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Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.
Danielle Trussoni
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I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.
Huey Lewis
Huey Lewis
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I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.
Andrew Pyper
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Troubles stole my paradise was our love just blind?
Look what you have done to me my love
You can still win back my heart, love can find a way
Got my love lying in your hands, oh
Still I can't explain why you went away
So, I ask again have you gonna stay
I feel just the same, love might come again
Emotion, emotion.
Dieter Bohlen
Modern Talking
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Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
George Eliot
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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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I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
Callan McAuliffe
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If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.
Bonnie Bedelia
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The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation. The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.
Albert Einstein