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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with A >> Quotes By Alan Stewart Paton |
| Quote #1: | "What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another" |
| Quote #2: | "Who knows why 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." |
| Quote #3: | "To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man." |
| Quote #4: | "I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating." |
| Quote #5: | "Life has . taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God." |
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