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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 muddled? 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 muddled? You are the one who must grow up.


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