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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Dag Hammarskjold

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The myths have always condemned those who ‘looked back.’ Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Convenience Deny Experience never Own Pieve Quiet Sake

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