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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

~Alan Paton

Topics: Deep Done Forgive Injury Never Recover Until Us

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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? 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

Topics: Beyond Books Die End Hard Human Knows Live Lives Many Men Our Our Lives Purpose Struggle Too Understand Who Wisdom Wise Wise Men Words Write

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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

Topics: Endure Humanity Inhumanity Life Man One Way Only Only One Way Own Try Way Which

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God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?

~Alan Paton

Topics: Am Forgive Forgives God Us Who Who Am I

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I 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 Paton

Topics: Africa Contribution Creative Different Each Envision Great Groups Making Many Nation Own Peaceful Pride Someday South South Africa Take Which Will World

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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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Topics: Free Free Man Give Man Reforming Responsibility Society Task Up

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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

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Topics: Because He Love Loves Man One Thing Power Seeks The One Thing Therefore Thing

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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.

~Alan Paton

Topics: Africa Central Concern Issues Novel Publishing South South Africa Which Worth Wrote You

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You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

~Alan Paton

Topics: Ask Expedient Right You Yourself

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Cry, 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

Topics: Beloved Child Country Cry Deeply Earth Fear Gives He Him Love Much Our Rob Too Too Much Unborn Unborn Child Will

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Novelist

Born: January 11th, 1903

Died: April 12th, 1988

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