• 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 there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

  Nadine Gordimer
  South african writer 1923-2014
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. rationalism
2. destroyed
3. terrible
4. ambition
5. suffer
6. goals

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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 there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it. by : Nadine Gordimer

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