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Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

Our notion of what makes a paradise always returns to the image of a beautiful and fruitful garden.

Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in you right now.

Paradise is to love many things with a passion.

Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.

Paradise is not something unique; there are so many paradises in the universe; Earth is one of them!

Paradise is not the place you go when you die. Paradise is when your mind is in a perfect state.

Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

Paradise is a state of mind.

Paradise is always where love dwells.

Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.

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.

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.

Satan rejoiced when Adam (peace be upon him) came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a diver sinks into the sea, he collects pearls and then rises again.

Refuse to seek for the road to paradise, because every beautiful place is already a paradise!

Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered.

Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.

Sinatra’s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn’t know it, but he’d be better off if it were the other way around.

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.

Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.

Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise.

South Carolina is in the spring a paradise, in the summer a hell, and in the autumn a hospital.

The ocean seemed like a sea of Eden. But now we are facing paradise lost.

...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise

The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.

Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.

The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.

The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

The problem with paradise is that it's temporary: You don't belong here and the neighbors are nobody you care to know, so it's only blissful for a week or so.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

There is no paradise, no place of true completion that does not include within its walls the unknown.

The Sabbath is the link between the paradise which has passed away and the paradise which is yet to come.

The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.

There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone

Think twice; it's just another day for you and me in paradise.

Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

Travel is a fools paradise.

To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

Traveling is a fool's paradise.

We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.