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Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Dag Hammarskjold
Age: 55 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1961
Died: January 1
Diplomat
Economist
Poet
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Jönköpings stad
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
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Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.
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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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The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.
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Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.
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To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.
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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 clean again.
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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 each departure from your decision.
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I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something,and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.
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Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
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You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond time where you are. How, then, can I hold back anything from you?
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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