“A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

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British playwright, novelist, short story writer 1874–1965

Paul P. Enns (1937) American theologian

Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 88

“The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of lost beauty.”

John Carroll (1944) Australian professor and author

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 92

“If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.”

Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright

Sholom Bayis, 1889. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 153.

“Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden,' Jacques said. And then: 'I wonder why.”

James Baldwin book Giovanni's Room

I have thought about Jacques' question since. Everyone, after all, goes the same dark road - and the road has a trick of being most dark, most treacherous, when it seems most bright - and it's true that nobody stays in the garden of Eden. Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don't know; but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then, perhaps, life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or.
Pt. 1, Ch. 2 - p.22
Giovanni's Room (1956)

“Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale… Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

Orthodoxy (1884)

“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

“The church teaches that man was created perfect, and that for six thousand years he has degenerated. Darwin demonstrated the falsity of this dogma. He shows that man has for thousands of ages steadily advanced; that the Garden of Eden is an ignorant myth; that the doctrine of original sin has no foundation in fact; that the atonement is an absurdity; that the serpent did not tempt, and that man did not “fall.””

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

Charles Darwin destroyed the foundation of orthodox Christianity. There is nothing left but faith in what we know could not and did not happen. Religion and science are enemies. One is a superstition; the other is a fact. One rests upon the false, the other upon the true. One is the result of fear and faith, the other of investigation and reason.
Orthodoxy (1884)

“The two girls grew up at the edge of the ocean and knew it was paradise, and better than Eden, which was only a garden.”

Eve Babitz (1943) American author

Source: Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time: A Novel

“A fool is always troublesome, a man of sense perceives when he pleases or is tiresome; he goes away the very minute before it might have been thought he stayed too long.”

Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères

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Les Caractères (1688), De la société et de la conversation

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