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You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.
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mythological
paradise
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Rick Riordan |
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In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
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paradise
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of their pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends who had done us no wrong, nor had given us any provocation. The Ambassador [of Tripoli] answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise. { }
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musselman
the-prophet
the-prophet-mohammed
tripli
koran
quran
religious-violence
mohammed
paradise
muslim
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Thomas Jefferson |
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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.
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travel
happiness
escapism
paradise
wanderlust
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J. Maarten Troost |
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cf60595
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I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. ( )
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faith
everlasting-life
sydney-carton
tale-of-two-cities
ever-after
charles-dickens
resurrection
paradise
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Anonymous |
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God hides the fires of hell within paradise.
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irony
god
paulo-coelho
paradise
hell
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Paulo Coelho |
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de7bee1
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Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.
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escape
women
humor
eve
paradise
sarcasm
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Oscar Wilde |
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5e26872
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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.
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totalitarianism
paradise
utopia
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Milan Kundera |
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It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist
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death
inferno
paradise
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Dan Brown |
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8ea989c
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Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.
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life
spain
paradise
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Henry Miller |
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0ff6cd6
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The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge.
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survivalism
softness
luxury
weakness
paradise
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Frank Herbert |
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34b6b94
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wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
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good
philosophy
paradise
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Wallace Stegner |
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cc12c23
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I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.
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paradise
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Henning Mankell |
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307b09a
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I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.
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roads
car
paradise
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Sam Shepard |
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d716b0d
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The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.
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present
heaven
present-moment
forever
existentialism
paradise
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Franz Kafka |
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ea79640
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Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few seconds to check their faded gleam, and imagining paradise as a place where a sleepless neighbor reads an endless book by the light of an eternal candle.
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reading
paradise
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Vladimir Nabokov |
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26b7d12
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A dying man asked a dying man for eternal life; a man without possessions asked a poor man for a Kingdom; a thief at the door of death asked to die like a thief and steal Paradise. One would have thought a saint would have been the first soul purchased over the counter of Calvary by the red coins of Redemption, but in the Divine plan it was a thief who was the escort of the King of kings into Paradise. If Our Lord had come merely as a teacher, the thief would never have asked for forgiveness. But since the thief's request touched the reason of His coming to earth, namely, to save souls, the thief heard the immediate answer: 'I promise thee, this day thou shalt be With Me in Paradise' (Luke 23:43) It was the thief's last prayer, perhaps even his first. He knocked once, sought once, asked once, dared everything, and found everything. When even the disciples were doubting and only one was present at the Cross, the thief owned and acknowledged Him as Saviour.
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heaven
jesus
penitent-thief
the-cross
salvation
repentance
paradise
christ
forgiveness
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Fulton J. Sheen |
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This is a paradise of rising to the occasion that points out by contrast how the rest of the time most of us fall down from the heights of possibility, down into diminished selves and dismal societies. Many now do not even hope for a better society, but they recognize it when they encounter it, and that discovery shines out even through the namelessness of their experience. Others recognize it, grasp it, and make something of it, and long-term social and political transformations, both good and bad, arise from the wreckage. The door to this ear's potential paradises is in hell.
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disaster
paradise
hell
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Rebecca Solnit |
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981b8c8
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After catching an arrow in the back and passing out in Tom the Feather's barnyard, Hadrian had woken up on a comfortable bed surrounded by lovely women. He thought he'd died and regretted every time he'd ever cursed Maribor's name.
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prostitutes
repentance
paradise
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Michael J. Sullivan |
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d82fc88
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The possibility of paradise hovers on the cusp of coming into being, so much so that it takes powerful forces to keep such a paradise at bay. If paradise now arises in hell, it's because in the suspension of the usual order and the failure of most systems, we are free to live and act another way.
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paradise
hell
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Rebecca Solnit |
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0ad3375
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Your voice, through the beelike hum, was remote and anxious. It kept sliding into the distance and vanishing. I spoke to you with tightly shut eyes, and felt like crying. My love for you was the throbbing, welling warmth of tears. That is exactly how I imagined paradise: silence and tears, and the warm silk of your knees. This you could not comprehend.
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love
vladimir-nabokov
paradise
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Vladimir Nabokov |
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126c68a
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Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden.
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truth
move-on
paradise
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James Baldwin |
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"Pope Alexander smiled. He seemed more amused with the story than horrified. "The Baglioni are true believers," he said. "They believe in paradise. Such a great gift. How otherwise can man bear this moral life? Unfortunately, such a belief also gives evil men the courage to commit great crimes in the name of good and God."
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good
god
moral-life
mario-puzo
borgias
gift
paradise
evil
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Mario Puzo |
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2f38ab7
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You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.
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war
greed
paradise
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Michel Faber |
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cc85e7a
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SOON, he replied, which makes better sense under the rules of that country than ours. VERY SOON! he added, clasping my hands; then, unable to keep from laughing, he pushed off from the rock like a boy going for the first cold swim of spring; and the current got him. The stream was singing aloud, and I heard him singing with it until he dropped away over the edge.
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heaven
god
paradise
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Leif Enger |
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369662e
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Her concept of paradise was something more immediate: a book and a blanket beneath a tree, where she might read in peace.
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paradise
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Janet Evanovich |
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458fd67
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Hey, ! There is a way out. Come to beautiful Oasis. No crime, no madness, no bad stuff of any kind, a brand new home, home on the range, no or antelope but hey, accentuate the positive, there never is a discouraging word, nobody rapes you or tries to reminisce about Paris in the springtime, no sense sniffing that old vomit, right? Cut the strings, blank the slate, let go of Auschwitz and the Alamo and the ... the fucking for God's sake, who needs it, who cares, focus on tomorrow. Onward and upward. Come to beautiful Oasis.
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auschwitz
oasis
paradise
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Michel Faber |