The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIs 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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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Everything will be all right – you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
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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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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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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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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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