“ Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell. ”
- Marvin Gaye- Copy
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“ England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses. ”
- John Florio- Copy
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“ England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 248
“ Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame — to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell! ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
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“ Happy is the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed. ”
- Virgil- Copy
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“ Everybody in the world ought to be sorry for everybody else. We all have our little private hell. ”
- Bettina Von Hutton- Copy
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“ When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory. ”
- Robert Brault- Copy
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“ Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality. ”
- Arnold Bennett- Copy
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“ Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas. ”
- Davy Crockett- Copy
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“ My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing. ”
- Adam Sandler- Copy
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“ I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless. That is the view that prevails in the underworld, where the Brotherhood of Man finds its most logical development and candid advocacy… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Hell is out of fashion — institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of Twentieth 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… ”
- J. G. Ballard- Copy
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