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

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But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind. – Rupert Brooke

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

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How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. – Johnny Cash

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