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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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We can only know one thing about God – that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. – Simone Weil

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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. – Simone Weil

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Faith
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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. – Simone Weil

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

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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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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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I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. – Jean Rostand

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