“Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“We do not know, we do not know. We shall live from day to day, and put more locks on the doors,… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“Who indeed knows the secret of the earthly pilgrimage? Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Who knows what… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“In the meantime the strike is over, with a remarkably low loss of life. All is quiet, they report, all is quiet.… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“He is a missionary and believes in God, intensely I mean, but it takes all kinds to make a world.” — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“All roads lead to Johannesburg. If you are white or if you are black they lead to Johannesburg. If the crops fail, there is… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.” — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that's why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school,… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“In a land of fear... incorruptibility is like a lamp set upon a stand, giving light to all in the house.” — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“Would age now swiftly overtake him? Would this terrible nodding last now for all his days, so that men said aloud in his presence,… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
