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“ ”Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
About Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African Jewish novelist and writer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in literature and 1974 Booker Prize.*, recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity".[1]
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
I’m asking you, it happens to interest me, is to kill the only sin we recognize.
It’s the ultimate, isn’t it. Is that what you mean.
No I don’t.
Lies, theft, false witness, betrayal –
Go on. Adultery, blasphemy, you believe in sin. I don’t think I do. I just believe in damage; don’t damage. That’s what [Duncan] was taught, that’s what he knows – knew. So now – is to take life the only sin recognized by people like me? Unbelievers. Not like you.
Of course it’s not. I’ve said: it’s the ultimate. Nothing more terrible.
Before God. She pushes him.
Before God and man.
The past has no wholeness, it has been etiolated by revised explanations of it, trampled over by hindsight - all their lives.