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

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

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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. – Simone Weil

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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. – Simone Weil

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

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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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Paradise, Utopia

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

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My agent says that Im a repeat business guy. If you hire me to come do a movie, Ill be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. Im here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often. – Dean Cain

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Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before. – Kathryn Bigelow

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