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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 longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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Always Become Child Christmas Day Grow Happy Long Moment Next Seem Summer Suremder Time Wait
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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Forgiveness 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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Answer Away Broken Clean Forgiveness Made Miracle Soiled
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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Avoid Contrary Course Desire Destiny History Human Implies Meaning Reason Something World
I never discuss discussions.
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Discuss Discussion never
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Die Enough Find Into Live Loneliness Pray Something
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Death Fulfilment Make Road Seek
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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Accept Atrophy Conquer Gain Give Good Life Live Muscle Stolen Yield
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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Alone Assume Become Duty Essential Integrity Moment Part Responsibility Suspect Task
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Critic Nothing Praise Standard Whom
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Choose Destiny Frame Our Permitted Put

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