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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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"If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing."
"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."
"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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"But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power."
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