“Memory is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.”

—  Jean Paul

Die Erinnerung ist das einzige Paradies, aus welchem wir nicht getrieben werden können.
Jean Paul's Geist; oder Chrestomathie http://books.google.ca/books?id=UMwMAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA6&hl=en, Vierter Theil [4th part], Weimar/Leipzig, 1816

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Die Erinnerung ist das einzige Paradies, aus welchem wir nicht getrieben werden können.

Impromptü's, welche ich künftig in Stammbücher schreiben werde (Cotta'sches Taschenbuch für Damen, 1812), 29.
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