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 gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the minds eye only, fade out in sand. – 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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. – 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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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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Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved — the site of it by architect could not again be proved. – Emily Dickinson

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Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there. – Emma Goldman

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