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To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.

Dag Hammarskjold

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Dag Hammarskjold
Age: 55 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1961
Died: January 1
Diplomat
Economist
Poet
Politician
Writer
Jönköpings stad
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
Open
Sky
Amid
Ripens
Within
Remain
Fertile
Arid
Fall
Ground
Preserve
Tramp
Matter
Rain
Grain
Moist
Many
Across
Preserves
Whirling
Quiet
Falls
Tramps
Darkness
Noise
Parade
Silence
Dust
Parades
Humus

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