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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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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. – Andre Gide

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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond. – Andre Gide

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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. – Andre Gide

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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other. – Jean Baudrillard

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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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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. – Lionel Trilling

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