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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. ”

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I have always found that actively lovingsaves one from a morbid preoccupationwith the shortcomings of society.

~ Alan Paton

Alan Paton Complaining Love

They were your friends?Yes, they were my friends.And they will leave you to suffer alone?Now I see it.And until this, were they friends you could trust?I could trust them.I see what you mean. You mean they were the kind of friends that a good man could choose, upright, hard-working, obeying the law?Tell me, were they such friends?And now they leave you alone?Did you not see it before?I saw it.

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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.

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Alan Paton Humanity Inhumanity

There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

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