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ALAN PATONIt is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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