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And money is not something to go mad about …

Alan Paton

St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
ALAN PATON

Country Creation Great Healer Make Taught Use Wound
These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATON

Beyond Covered Grass Love Roll Sing
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
ALAN PATON

Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
ALAN PATON

Endeavor God Leave Result Seek Sustenance Taught
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
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
ALAN PATON

Destroy Family Know Life Permissible Us
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Broke Could Himself Kill Man
The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
ALAN PATON

Down Eath Enjoy Fear Heart Land Lovely Man Pour Sun
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
ALAN PATON

All Greatest Offence Punish Restore
But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
ALAN PATON

Another Counsel Cry Help Neither Seek Something
What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
ALAN PATON

Beat Broke Death Down Flesh Heart Knife Living Thrust
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
ALAN PATON

Bird Land Move Sing
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
ALAN PATON

Broken Thing Tragedy
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.
ALAN PATON

Against Deserted Forest Harbour Lap Quay Silent Tap
Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
ALAN PATON

Clothes Comfort Food Money Picture Visit
Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
ALAN PATON

Can God Heal Hill Music Name Now River Such Thank

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