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Dag Hammarskjold Quotes: Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddied? You are the one who must grow up.
         

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddied? You are the one who must grow up.


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Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddied? You are the one who must grow up.
         



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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.



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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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