We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of th

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

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

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

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