"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.

This accidentalmeeting of possibilitiescalls itself I.I ask: what am I doing here?And, at once, this Ibecomes unreal.
~ Dag Hammarskjöld ~












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