“Your body must become familiar with its death — in all its possible forms and degrees — as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.”

—  Dag Hammarskjöld

Markings (1964)

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Swedish diplomat, economist, and author 1905–1961

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