If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATONWise 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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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