There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
ALAN PATONBehind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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