I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
ALAN PATONAlthough nothing has come yet, something is here already.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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And 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.
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because 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.
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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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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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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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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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