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• The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of lost beauty.

  John Carroll

  Men, Garden, Eden

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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.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Memories, Voice, Suffering

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• Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Government, Afterlife

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• Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.

  Edward Abbey

  Real, Journey, Hiking

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• The only paradise is paradise lost.

  Marcel Proust

  Lost

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• If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Happy, Hippie

  Attributed to Bertrand Russell, Think, Vol. 27 (p. 32), 1961.

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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.

  William Penn

  Doe, Rewards, Sake

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• I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Nature, Book, Reading

  "Dreamtigers". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1960.

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• All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.

  Toni Morrison

  People, Utopia

  "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", www.princeton.edu. March 9, 1998.

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• Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.

  Bruno Mars

  Air, Cheesy, Sound

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• Your peaks are beautiful, ye Apennines!
  In the soft light of these serenest skies;
  From the broad highland region, black with pines,
  Fair as the hills of Paradise they rise,
  Bathed in the tint Peruvian slaves behold
  In rosy flushes on the virgin gold.

  William C. Bryant

  Beautiful, Light, Sky

  William Cullen Bryant, “To The Apennines”

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• If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Home, Missing, Ifs

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Death Did Not Want to Kill Me'" by Teri Whitcraft and Muriel Pearson, abcnews.go.com. October 6, 2013.

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• Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

  Christopher Columbus

  Soul, Wish, Gold

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• It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Promise, Curiosity, Literature

  "Put Out More Flags". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1942.

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• Traveling is a fool's paradise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Travel, Fool

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

  Robert South

  Athens, Rubbish, Adam

  'Sermons' vol. 1, no. 2

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• Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

  Milan Kundera

  Jealousy, Dog, Evil

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In looking for the keys of paradise, a pope may stoop a little; having found them, he should rise again.

  Pope Sixtus V

  Keys, May, Littles

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• Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Surprise, Stairways

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4360, Delphi Classics

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• It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

  Ezra Pound

  Fear, Writing, Optimistic

  Ezra Pound (2003). “Poems and Translations”

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• Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Men, Would Be

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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.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Santa Barbara, May, Superficial

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.98, Verso

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• Children are the keys of paradise.

  Eric Hoffer

  Children, Reality, Keys

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• The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.

  Octavia Butler

  Children, Home, Should Have

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.130, Open Road Media

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• I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

  Marguerite Young

  Leader, Causes, Utopia

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