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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? ↗

— Hugo Ball

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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

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A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell! ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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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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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words) ↗

— John Newton

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This horror will grow mild, this darkness light. ↗

— John Milton

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. ↗

— John Berry

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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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