Paradise

(251 votes)   The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.

Andre Gide
1869-1951, French Author

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(173 votes)   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
1923-1971, American Photographer

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(112 votes)   Everyone who has ever built anywhere a ''new heaven'' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(108 votes)   A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American Writer

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(90 votes)   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.

Ezra Pound
1885-1972, American Poet, Critic

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(85 votes)   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.

J. A. Primo De Rivera
1903-1936, Spanish Falangist Politician

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