There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATONIf you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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