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Quote by Andre Gide
The abominable effort to take ones sins with one to paradise. - An

The abominable effort to take ones sins with one to paradise. – Andre Gide

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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. – Andre Gide

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Fear
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Andre Gide
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities…. I listen to them and they go away delighted. – Andre Gide

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Listening
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I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. – Jean Rostand

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Paradise, Utopia

The Utopia the bible seems to want would have people hate evil when it is time to hate and suggests that people who turn away from the world to follow His word would in turn be hated and those people who hate them are to be humiliated in the end. – James Dye

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Paradise, Utopia

It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. – Evelyn Waugh

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Paradise, Utopia

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. – Simone Weil

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Paradise, Utopia

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