Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
ALAN PATONI envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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