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• Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Friendship, Loneliness, Being Alone

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• Perhaps a great love is never returned.

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  Love, Unrequited Love, Love Is

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• So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his wife's body in faithful tenderness, so the bare ground and trees are embraced by the still, high, light of the morning. I feel an ache of longing to share in this embrace, to be united and absorbed. A longing like carnal desire, but directed towards earth, water, sky, and returned by the whispers of the trees, the fragrance of the soil, the caresses of the wind, the embrace of water and light. Content? No, no, no - but refreshed, rested - while waiting.

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  Faith, Morning, Husband

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• Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

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  Life, Growing Up, Attitude

  "Know Your Limits - Then Ignore Them". Book by John Mason, 2000.

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• The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

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  Order, Support, Historical

  The Times, October 04, 1960.

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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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  Men, Tree, Secret

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• The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.

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  Doors, House, Devil

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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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  Children, Maturity, Play

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Smiling, sincere, incorruptible -
  His body disciplined and limber.
  A man who had become what he could,
  And was what he was-
  Ready at any moment to gather everything
  Into one simple sacrifice.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Life, Sacrifice, Simple

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• The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For this is the truth we must reach to live, that everything is and we just in it.

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  Reality, Overcoming, Faces

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• You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn.

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  Dream, Real, Light

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• Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Time, Reputation, Increase

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

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  Love, Life, Healing

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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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.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Integrity, Responsibility, Men

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat, it gathers all the power of the wind without hampering its course. Like light-- In light, lit through by light, transformed into light. Like the lens which disappears in the light it focuses. Like wind. Like light. Just this--on these expanses, on these heights.

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  Strong, Light, Wind

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• When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism.

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  Nature, Animal, Body

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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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  Meaningful, Answers, Moments

  Markings (1964)

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• Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong...

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  Trying, Faults, Realizing

  "Servant of Peace: A Selection of the Speeches and Statements of Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary-General of the United Nations 1953-1961". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1962.

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• Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

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  Flower, Inspiration, Humility

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• Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality.

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  Reality, Ego, Naked

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• He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

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  Nature, Brother, Stars

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• Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been hindered from ever growing to maturity. It "gives" us nothing. But in its world of loneliness it leads us up to the summits with wide vistas - of great insights.

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  Love, Loneliness, Maturity

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• It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics... so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted.

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  Men, Brain, Littles

  "Hammarskjöld". Book by Brian Urquhart, 1972.

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• The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

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  Success, Peace, Freedom

  United Nations Bulletin Vol. XVI, No. 4, February 15, 1954.

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• It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Nice, Inspiration, Character

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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