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Which Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold
- 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…
- 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…
- God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives…
- The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
- Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
- 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…
- In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
- 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…
- 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…
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