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Dag Hammarskjöld

“That strange moment when a man's features are dissolved into the trembling shimmer on the surface of the wave, through which you peer into the depths without being able to see the bottom. You are tempted to dive in and to grasp - but the water cannot be grasped, and beneath its surface you cannot breathe. One step further and the relation is destroyed, reduced to terror and error: you imagine you are taking possession of a human being, but, in fact, you are losing him. In your attempt to break down the boundaries of a personality, you are building a new prison for yourself.”

Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings: Spiritual Poems and Meditations
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Markings: Spiritual Poems and Meditations Markings: Spiritual Poems and Meditations by Dag Hammarskjöld
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