Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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