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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

Alan Paton

And money is not something to go mad about …
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Mad Money Something
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.
ALAN PATON

Deep Earth FIner Fire Let Love Make Sun Through
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATON

Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
ALAN PATON

Beautiful Face Land Question
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
ALAN PATON

All Forgive Trespass Us
But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
ALAN PATON

Another Counsel Cry Help Neither Seek Something
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
ALAN PATON

Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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All Road Country Lead Pople
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
ALAN PATON

Broken Thing Tragedy
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
ALAN PATON

Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
ALAN PATON

Cost Done Men One Other Permissible Possession These Thing
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.
ALAN PATON

Away Compass False Journey Lie Life Ned Play Rest Slip
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
ALAN PATON

Kindness Love Pain Secret Suffer
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
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
But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
ALAN PATON

Anything Destroy House Rebuild Something Strom

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

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