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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/3172/">Quotes by <em>Hammarskjold, Dag</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjld (helpinfo) (July 29, 1905 September 18, 1961) was a Swedish diplomat who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September, 1961. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours."

Hammarskjold, Dag · Destiny · 1 fans >>
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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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"To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive."

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"Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."

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"Friendship needs no words..."

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"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road."

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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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"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses."

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"What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear."

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