I 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.
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.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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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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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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