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Paradise quotes

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“Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.” Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves” Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“Totalitarianism is not only hell, but also the dream of paradise—the age-old dream of a world where everybody would live in harmony, united by a single common will and faith, without secrets from one another.” Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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government boredom totalitarianism fault monarchy luxury utopia

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Henry David Thoreau (1)
Milan Kundera (1)
Arthur Schopenhauer (1)
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Walden (1)
Studies in Pessimism (1)
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1)