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#paradise

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


Charles de Secondat


#descriptions #go #i #make #paradise

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


Robert South


#aristotle #athens #paradise #rubbish #rudiments

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.


William Makepeace Thackeray


#i #i am #look #me #paradise

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.


George Santayana


#oxford #paradise #philosophies

I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I never spent so pleasant a month before, or bade any place goodbye so regretfully. I have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness, and the memory of it will remain with me always.


Mark Twain


#memory #paradise #business

They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell.


John Milton


#epic-poem #john #milton #paradise-lost #satan

Totalitarianism is not only hell, but all the dream of paradise-- the age-old dream of a world where everybody would live in harmony, united by a single common will and faith, without secrets from one another. Andre Breton, too, dreamed of this paradise when he talked about the glass house in which he longed to live. If totalitarianism did not exploit these archetypes, which are deep inside us all and rooted deep in all religions, it could never attract so many people, especially during the early phases of its existence. Once the dream of paradise starts to turn into reality, however, here and there people begin to crop up who stand in its way. and so the rulers of paradise must build a little gulag on the side of Eden. In the course of time this gulag grows ever bigger and more perfect, while the adjoining paradise gets even smaller and poorer.


Milan Kundera


#paradise #totalitarianism #utopia #age

Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.


John Jewel


#angels #beheld #company #did #estate

How peaceful it was, with the light evening breeze stirring the small leaves of the grapevine that clustered around the electric bulb, making the shadows move and change on the yellow mat below. For a moment he pushed aside the thought of money. From time to time the dark water beside them rippled audibly, as if a tiny fish had come to the surface for an instant and then darted beneath. It was in peaceful moments such as this, his father had said, that men were given to know just a little of what paradise was like, so that they might yearn for it with all their soul,and strive during their time on earth to be worthy of going there.


Paul Bowles


#yearning #change

Thou at the sight Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile, While by thee raised I ruin all my foes, Death last, and with his carcass glut the grave.


John Milton


#paradise-lost #paradise-lost-book-iii #death






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