Both looked back then
Both looked back then on the wild revelry…and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Paradise
Life in the world…
Life in the world… was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
…and the cries of
…and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of … Read more
I have tried to
I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made. Ezra Pound
It is difficult to
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. Ezra Pound
It is a curious
It is a curious thing… that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. Evelyn Waugh
The wonder is what
The wonder is what you can make a paradise out of. Eva Hoffman
Two days ago we
Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to place a Christmas wreath on it, hoping he would look down from the Paradise of Ten Billion Trees and Unrationable Dog Biscuits and pity us. Eugene O’Neill
A person who has
A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him. … Read more
In the history of
In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an absolute that is called heaven, freedom, a miracle, a lost paradise to be regained, peace, the going beyond History… There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered … Read more