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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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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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The heavens declare the glory of God, and the earth is shows his handiwork. – Bible

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Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close. – Robert Frost

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