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The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one.
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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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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For the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the humiliation which is both the necessary precondition and the consequence of faith, faith without any hope of compensation other than he can find in a faith which reality seems so thoroughly to refute.
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us.
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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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This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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