In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to 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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Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
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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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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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I never discuss discussions.
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"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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