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Quote by Nadine Gordimer
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed he

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear thered be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it. – Nadine Gordimer

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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. – Nadine Gordimer

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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. – Nadine Gordimer

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Well, I dont know, but Ive been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary! – Bob Dylan

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Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and all else shall be added unto you. Mathew – Bible

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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heavens wonders. – Louis D. Brandeis

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I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven. – Jean-Baptiste Corot

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The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another. – David O. Selznick

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