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

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

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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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