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Alan Paton
South African
Novelist
About the author
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
Alan Paton,
South African
Novelist
#Responsibility
#Man
#Society
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
Alan Paton,
South African
Novelist
#Love
#Man
#Power
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,
South African
Novelist
#Words
#End
#Men
#Purpose
#Books
#Wisdom
#Struggle
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
Alan Paton,
South African
Novelist
#Man
You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
Alan Paton,
South African
Novelist
#Right
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,
South African
Novelist
#Life
#Humanity
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
Alan Paton,
South African
Novelist
#Publishing
#Worth
#Concern
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,
South African
Novelist
#Will
#World
#Nation
#Pride
God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?
Alan Paton,
South African
Novelist
#God
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,
South African
Novelist
#Love
#Will
#Fear
#Earth
#Country
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
Alan Paton,
South African
Novelist
#Deep
#Injury