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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe 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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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 no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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