Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
ALAN PATONFor who can stop the heart from breaking?
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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