Quote by Diane Arbus
It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fal

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

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Most people go through life dreading theyll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. Theyve already passed their test in life. Theyre aristocrats. – Diane Arbus

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Theres a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. – Diane Arbus

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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

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

It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. – Evelyn Waugh

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

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