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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

We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, angels with swords. – J. A. Primo De Rivera

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

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other. – Jean Baudrillard

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