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"Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."
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Dag HammarskjöldA task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essentia — Dag Hammarskjöld
"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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Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld
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Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. As of 2026, he remains the youngest person to have held the post, having been only 47 years old when he was elected. He was a son of Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, who served as Prime Minister of Sweden f
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"Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them."
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"Le courage de nos différences. Without becoming irresponsible, to accept what divides us — with humility and with pride. It is by the new that mankind is saved or betrayed."
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"I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive."
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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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"You try to save a drowning man without prior authorization."
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