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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars. – 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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Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close. – Robert Frost

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Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Mathew – Bible

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It is easier for a camel to pass through they eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God. – Bible

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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands. – Orison Swett Marden

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