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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,

Alan Paton

Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
ALAN PATON

Build Create Future Generate Mistake Past Reconciliation
The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
ALAN PATON

Endurable Inhumanity Make Man Only Way
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
ALAN PATON

All Fall Much Now Silence Talk
Happy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATON

Close Eye Happy One Liner
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
ALAN PATON

Men Work
Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
ALAN PATON

Been Before Bring Come Death Destructive Lighten never Such Thunder
Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
ALAN PATON

Born Buy Earth Fruit Land Money
There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
ALAN PATON

All Day Gather Grass Great Man Over Sleep Storm
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.
ALAN PATON

Book Hard Human Many Struggle Understand Wisdom Write
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
ALAN PATON

Die Know Live Struggle
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
ALAN PATON

Kindness Love Pain Secret Suffer
There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
ALAN PATON

Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
ALAN PATON

Been Could Dwell Habit never
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATON

Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
ALAN PATON

Any Big Go Intention Judge Say Will Wound
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
ALAN PATON

Century Come Dawn Fall never Thousand

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