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.
Dag Hammarskjold
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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.
- Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
- In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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- Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.