"Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself."

Shaw, George Bernard on hell
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"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."

Shaw, George Bernard on hell
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"Hell is other people."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on hell
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"For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives."

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"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."

Popper, Karl on hell   

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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