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Friendship needs no words.

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
Friendship
Silence
Words
Needs

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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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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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The longest journey is the journey inward.
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Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Each day the first day: Each day a life.
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We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.
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Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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 assume responsibility.
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The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one.
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At some moment I did answer Yes to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is meaningful.
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On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.
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