The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIf even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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