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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.
Dag Hammarskjold

Approximate author period: c. 1933 AD · modern

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Dag Hammarskjold
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Approximate author period: c. 1933 AD · modern
Approximate period for recorded attribution label Dag Hammarskjold: recorded author lifetime 1905–1961. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1267 (checked 2026-10-08). The existing author record is dag-hammarskjold; no author identity is bound and no quotation composition date or attribution is independently verified.
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