I never discuss discussions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDDestiny 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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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Time 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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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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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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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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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