In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDForgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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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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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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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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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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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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