“It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.”
Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin
Source: The Blind Assassin
“The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.”
— Victor Hugo, book The Man Who Laughs
Source: The Man Who Laughs
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“The path to paradise begins in hell.”
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Source: The Divine Comedy
“God hides the fires of hell within paradise.”
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Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Hell was not perfect, but it was paradise compared with New Jersey.”
James K. Morrow book Only Begotten Daughter
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 10 (p. 174)