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My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

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

I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

The only paradise is paradise lost.

When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.