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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."
"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."
Explore more quotes by Dag Hammarskjold
"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."
"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon."
"There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return."
"Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict."
"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."
"In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us."
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