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Quote by Dag Hammarskjold
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an esse

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

Other quotes by Dag Hammarskjold

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. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Loneliness
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Dag Hammarskjold
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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. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Nature
Author
Dag Hammarskjold
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The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satans prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth. – William Gurnall

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Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as its increasingly an art of gesture alone. – Andrew Eldritch

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alone

When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality. – Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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alone

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. – Gustave Flaubert

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