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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDI never discuss discussions.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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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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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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