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

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

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

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. – Ernest Hemingway

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