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  • In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Fall Quotes , Dark Quotes
  • There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Voice Quotes , Done Quotes
  • What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Heart Quotes , Eye Quotes
  • The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
  • 6 years ago



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