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

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Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter… This is it… If you dont get it here, you wont get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; heres the place to have the experience. – Joseph Campbell

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

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