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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Related topics: Imagination
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
- Omar Khayyam
It is better to have your head in the clouds,
and know where you are...
than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them,
and think that you are in paradise.
- Henry David Thoreau
Home is where our loved ones are.
Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable,
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
A palace is not a home without loved ones.
A shack or an open field can be paradise
when shared with a loving family.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten
when you start thinking in terms of achieving something.
When the achieving mind arises,
you lose contact with the paradise you are in.
- Osho
Utility is when you have one telephone,
luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three -
and paradise is when you have none.
- Doug Larson
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at
once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
- Emile M. Cioran
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
If you are nice, and keep your promise,
we will be in paradise.
- Camille Claudel
Not in purity or in holiness merely,
for in Paradise man was holy,
and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice
of Christ and made an heir of heaven.
- Matthew Simpson
We save paradise by an intense education program where
you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about
the environment and hope that the message will get through.
- Arthur Boyd
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men,
and the hell of horses.
- John Florio
If one cannot catch a bird of paradise,
better take a wet hen.
- Nikita Khrushchev
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
- Victor Hugo
It is a curious thing...
that every creed promises a paradise which will be
absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
- Evelyn Waugh
Your library is your paradise.
- Desiderius Erasmus
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
- Simone Weil
For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing;
and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America
is not lightly to be disregarded.
- Howard K. Smith
Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that
I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important
to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.
- Ashley Judd
Paradise is open to all kind hearts.
- Pierre Jean de Beranger
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
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to
arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
- Erma Bombeck
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should
be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
- Jean Rostand
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
- Thomas Fuller
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
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda,
one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an
extremely wretched life as paradise.
- Adolf Hitler
Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
- Dario Argento
Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy
is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.
- Frank Langella
He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.
- Abu Bakr
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam,
and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
- Robert South
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends,
for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
- Arthur Miller
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family
as its center and ornament,
and this paradise is not secure until children appear
to animate and complete the picture.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now...
only much, much better.
- Laurie Anderson
To Adam Paradise was home.
To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
- Augustus Hare
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
- Karl Popper
When you look at me, when you think of me,
I am in paradise.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and
Broadway which was where they were playing,
and I sat in.
- Ray Conniff
The only paradise is paradise lost.
- Marcel Proust
Through clever and constant application of propaganda,
people can be made to see paradise as hell,
and also the other way round, to consider the most
wretched sort of life as paradise.
- Adolf Hitler
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images.
Is sign language the real language of Paradise?
- Hugo Ball
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven,
it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
- John Lancaster Spalding
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality,
eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
- George Santayana
No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.
- David Hilbert
He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah,
God will build a house for him in the paradise.
- Abu Bakr
Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise
when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.
- Jessamyn West
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine
and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light
has found the lost paradise.
- Horace Mann
Move to California.
Malibu is paradise.
- David Geffen
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
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
- Novalis
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
- George Santayana
Children are the keys of paradise.
- Eric Hoffer
In a republic, that paradise of debility,
the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
- Emile M. Cioran
I would say my theme has always been paradise lost,
always the lost cause, the lost leader,
the lost utopia.
- Marguerite Young
Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the
pain of hell and Paradise.
- George William Russell
To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find
the way Until the peacock led him in.
- Charles Godfrey Leland
Paradise was made for tender hearts;
hell,
for loveless hearts.
- Voltaire
It is in games that many men discover their paradise.
- Robert Wilson Lynd
Love can consign us to hell or to paradise,
but it always takes us somewhere.
- Paulo Coelho
When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to
think about the problems of Jamaica.
So let them come be in their paradise.
- Ziggy Marley
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
- John Berry
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make
any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
- Charles de Secondat
Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in
the nostalgia of a lost paradise,
to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?
- Julio Cortazar
The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God.
- Alphonsus Liguori
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
- Jean Paul
On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise.
For now I am content to explore my own home and our
nearest neighbour France.
- John Dyer
We did not get any money from the early records.
It was all taken by crooked managers.
It is just a gangster's paradise.
- Robert Wyatt
We lived on the Key West Army Base.
Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.
- Gloria Swanson
A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell.
- Esther Dyson
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward,
but he is sure of both in the end.
- William Penn
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
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
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