To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.

—Vita Sackville-West

About Vita Sackville-West

Portrait of Vita Sackville-West

Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH (née Sackville-West; 9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.

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Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

—Laurie Anderson

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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

—Joni Mitchell

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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Traveling is a fool's paradise. . . . I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The only paradise is paradise lost.

—Marcel Proust

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