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I have always imagined that Paradise will be
a kind of library.
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-Jorge Luis Borges
El Hacedor / The Dreamtigers,
1960
"Poema de los Dones"
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The faithful is told that the sword is the
key to heaven and hell. One drop of blood spilled on the battlefield, one
night spent under arms, will count for more than two months of fasting and
prayer.
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-Gustave E. von Grunebaum
Medieval Islam, 1961
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody
wants to die.
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-Eli Khamarov
Surviving on Planet Reebok
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It's strange to know that she is surely at
peace . . . and yet to grieve so much.
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-Martin Luther, speaking of his daughter,
Magdalene
Qtd. in Jaroslav Pelikan and Helmut T. Lehmann's Luther's Works,
1955-1986
Vol. 54
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I desire to go to
Hell, not to Heaven. In Hell I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and
princes, but in Heaven are only beggars, monks, hermits and apostles.
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-Niccolo Machiavelli
(cf. HEAVEN : Twain)
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Go to Heaven for the
climate, Hell for the company.
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-Mark Twain
(cf. HEAVEN : Machiavelli)
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Of the delights of this world, man cares most
for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
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-Mark Twain
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