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Quote by Evelyn Waugh
It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which w

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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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. – Evelyn Waugh

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Philosophical
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Evelyn Waugh
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If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe… – Evelyn Waugh

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Summer
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Paradise, Utopia
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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. – Simone Weil

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Paradise, Utopia

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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Paradise, Utopia

It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up. And they did. – Diane Arbus

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Paradise, Utopia

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

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