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  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won’t work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae. Download This Image
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won’t work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won’t work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won’t work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won’t work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won’t work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.
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Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won’t work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

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    I don’t think I have nerves of steel, far from it, but I can certainly stand up to things. I am not afraid to look suffering straight in the eyes.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And the tree outside my window, in the evenings, is a greater experience than all those people put together. Download This Image

    Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And the tree outside my window, in the evenings, is a greater experience than all those people put together.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise. Download This Image

    I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion. Download This Image

    Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

    Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned. Download This Image

    I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - One must also accept that one has ‘uncreative’ moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass. Download This Image

    One must also accept that one has ‘uncreative’ moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that’s quite a task. Download This Image

    To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that’s quite a task.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. Download This Image

    Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - After each creative act one has to be sustained by one’s strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don’t know what, lest one tumble. Download This Image

    After each creative act one has to be sustained by one’s strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don’t know what, lest one tumble.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God. Download This Image

    Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.

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    I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

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    If one burdens the future with one’s worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day. Download This Image

    Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that’s not too awful either, but never, never give up. Download This Image

    Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that’s not too awful either, but never, never give up.

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    We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.

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