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

A fools paradise is a wise mans hell! – Thomas Fuller

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

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better. – Laurie Halse Anderson

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