#paradise

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible. ↗

— Max Muller

#banished #begins #bible #chapters #clear

Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home. ↗

— J. Maarten Troost

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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. ↗

— Jean Paul

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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

#does #end #good #in the end #neither

The only paradise is paradise lost. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then? ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

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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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If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

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