We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting

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I'm only seven, although I died In Hiroshima long ago, I'm seven now as I was then - When children die, they do not grow.

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The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet. The most beautiful child hasn't grown up yet. The most beautiful days we haven't seen yet. And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you I haven't said yet.

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I've never regretted I was born too soon. I'm proud to be a child of the twentieth century. I'm satisfied to join its ranks on our side and fight for a new world.

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And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.

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Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.

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Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

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At eighteen you sleep without memories.

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The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

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When the light of the star which flows into my eyes as a drop of gold first pierced the darkness in space, there was not a single eye on earth looking at the sky.

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