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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.

Alan Paton

The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Broken Thing Tragedy
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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Cost Done Men One Other Permissible Possession These Thing
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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All Fall Much Now Silence Talk
But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Bondage Come Drawn Emancipation Fear Love
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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Completely Love Man One Power Thing Wise
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Achieve Always Found Love Morbid Preoccupation Save Shortcoming Society
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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Anything Destroy House Rebuild Something Strom
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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Any Big Go Intention Judge Say Will Wound
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATON

Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATON

Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
In 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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Against Deserted Forest Harbour Lap Quay Silent Tap
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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Doom Fear Hate Hell Messenger Mind Open Sadness
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Ever Except Foot Nothing Quiet
Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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According Judge Justice Law Unjust
This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Beauty Country Field Hedge Talk Time
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.
ALAN PATON

Book Hard Human Many Struggle Understand Wisdom Write

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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