There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
ALAN PATONFear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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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?
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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