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Inspirational Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold
- Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.
- Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
- We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.
- We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.
- Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it.
- Do not seek death. Death will find you,
- Perhaps a great love is never returned.
- What you must dare: is to be yourself.
- I have only my own burden to bear.
- On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.
- Life yields only to the conqueror.
- To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.
- Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us.
- Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
- Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
- 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 more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
- I never discuss discussions.
- Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can…
- This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.
- For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!
- For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes.
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- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
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