Quotes by Sir Laurens van der Post

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Man is everywhere dangerously unaware of himself. We really know nothing about the nature of man, and unless we hurry to get to know ourselves we are in dangerous trouble.
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[The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.
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[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.