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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. – Lucretius

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

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

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

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

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