I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTime 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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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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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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