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  • The only paradise is paradise lost. -- Marcel Proust
  • The ocean seemed like a sea of Eden. But now we are facing paradise lost. -- Sylvia Earle
  • A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world. -- Jim Morrison
  • I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. -- Marguerite Young
  • Isn't the first story told in the West about the Fall? Adam and Eve were immigrants too from somewhere, a lost Eden, a paradise lost. We all now are so mobile, so nomadic . -- Andrew Lam
  • The journey to true happiness and to happiness now is not a journey of physical distance or time; it is one of personal "self-recovery," where we remember and reconnect consciously to an inner potential for joy--a paradise lost--waiting to be found. -- Robert Holden
  • Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. -- Samuel Johnson
  • I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it. -- Callan McAuliffe
  • Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. -- Horace Mann
  • Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves? -- Julio Cortazar
  • When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil. -- Marilynne Robinson
  • When you look at the original 'Paradise Lost' film, you see three kids who can't defend themselves, being persecuted in a medieval way - witchcraft, satanic worship. It was kind of primitive. -- Peter Jackson
  • It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature. -- John Drinkwater
  • I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan. -- Andrew Pyper
  • Most of my reading is based on what I'm working on. I did a series of paintings based on the seven deadly sins, so I read Dante and then Milton's 'Paradise Lost.' That was a bit hard going. -- Jamie Wyeth
  • I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. -- Helen Oyeyemi
  • You will most appreciate 'Freddy and Fredericka' if you are familiar with the story of the Fall, the Good Hermit, 'Tom Jones,' 'Huckleberry Finn,' 'Paradise Lost,' 'Henry V,' and 'My Cousin Vinny.' That doesn't mean that you can't enjoy or understand it on an emotional level, free of all allusion, which is the test of any book of fiction. -- Mark Helprin
  • The very nature of paradise is that it will be lost. -- Melissa Coleman
  • Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise. -- Jean Klein
  • Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within. -- John Dryden
  • Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love. -- Anais Nin
  • I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
  • A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying. -- F. R. Leavis
  • ..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down. -- Harlan Coben
  • Idle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it; it is still to make. -- Susan Ertz
  • I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost. -- Henning Mankell
  • 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
  • Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat. -- Orson Welles
  • 'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. -- John Milton
  • Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curling up with it. -- Peg Bracken
  • Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a single small volume, I always chose Milton. -- Charles Darwin
  • To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography. -- C. S. Lewis
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