One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
ALAN PATONIn the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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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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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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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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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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