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"What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?"
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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"You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right."
Righteousness
"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man."
Society
"If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing."
Concern
"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."
Love
"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."
Life
"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."
Nation
"God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?"
God
"When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive."
Forgiveness
"What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?"
Man
"But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power."
Power
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