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Hell is out of fashion -- institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.

– J. G. Ballard

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Heaven for climate, Hell for company.

– J. M. Barrie

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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

– Pearl S. Buck

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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

– Pearl S. Buck

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I Pray Heaven to Bestow The Best of Blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on All that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof!

– John Adams

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No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

– Dwight L. Moody

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The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.

– Victor Hugo

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Every one likes to go to heaven. But how many would ready to die?

– Dr. Shreenivas R. Deshpande

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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

– Malcolm Muggeridge

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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

– James Joyce

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Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

– Andrew Jackson

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

– Charles Dickens

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They say marriages are made in heaven. But so is thunder and lightning

– Clint Eastwood

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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

– Evelyn Waugh

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There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.

– Umberto Eco

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

– Tryon Edwards

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Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

– Logan Pearsall Smith

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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

– Horace

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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

– Nadine Gordimer

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Four things a man must learn to doIf he would make his record true:To think without confusion clearly;To love his fellow-men sincerely;To act from honest motives purely;To trust in God and Heaven securely.

– Henry van Dyke

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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

– Jonathan Swift

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Health is my expected heaven.

– John Keats

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

– Amos Bronson Alcott

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

– Matthew Arnold

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