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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 intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. – Simone Weil

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The only way into truth is through ones own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. – Simone Weil

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

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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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Paradise, Utopia

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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Paradise, Utopia

The Utopia the bible seems to want would have people hate evil when it is time to hate and suggests that people who turn away from the world to follow His word would in turn be hated and those people who hate them are to be humiliated in the end. – James Dye

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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me. – Ingmar Bergman

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It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our peoples democratic order and the power of the working class. – Janos Kadar

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