A Quote by Anais Nin

Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.

Anais Nin

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Illusion Lost Love Paradise Seeking Supreme Travel

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Anais Nin
American - Novelist
February 21, 1903 - January 14, 1977

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

Jean Baudrillard

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.

John Drinkwater

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.

Frederick Lenz

Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.

Padgett Powell

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

Marguerite Young

Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.

Jean Klein

All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe light love, lost and found love, lost and found and lost love, lost and lost and lost love—some people were having no luck at all. The DJ sounds quick and smooth and after-shaved, the rest of the world a mess by comparison.

Lorrie Moore

Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.

Lauren DeStefano

The only paradise is paradise lost.

Marcel Proust

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessedness that may someday be again.

Frederick Buechner

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

Ray Bradbury

As in paradise, God walks in the Holy Scriptures, seeking man.

Ambrose

Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

Clement Greenberg

Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but "lies asleep."