Paradise is not something unique; there are so many paradises in the universe; Earth is one of them!
There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal. '
I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.
Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.
The only possible paradises are those we have lost
You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.
Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast.
