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.
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Showing posts with label Paradise Quotes. Show all posts
It is difficult to write a par...
It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. It is obviously much easier to find inhabitants for an inferno or even a purgatorio.
It gets to seem as if way back...
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.
Everyone who has ever built an...
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a ""new heaven"" first found the power thereto in his own hell.
A book of Verses underneath th...
A book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
A beautiful vacuum filled with...
A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
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