Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
ALAN PATONSadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
ALAN PATONI 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 PATONAlthough nothing has come yet, something is here already.
ALAN PATONSomething deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
ALAN PATONI have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
ALAN PATONbecause life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
ALAN PATONAnd money is not something to go mad about …
ALAN PATONThere is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATONFear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
ALAN PATONThere is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
ALAN PATONWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONBut to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
ALAN PATONThe ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
ALAN PATONI am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
ALAN PATONAnd whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
ALAN PATONCry, 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.
ALAN PATON