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  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. Download This Image
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
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Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

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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 - Such words as ‘God’ and ‘Death’ and ‘Suffering’ and ‘Eternity’ are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be. Download This Image

    Such words as ‘God’ and ‘Death’ and ‘Suffering’ and ‘Eternity’ are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - The fact is I don’t lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify too much with everything I read and study. Someone like Dostoevsky still shatters me. Download This Image

    The fact is I don’t lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify too much with everything I read and study. Someone like Dostoevsky still shatters me.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes. Download This Image

    Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

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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 - We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds. Download This Image

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole. Download This Image

    That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram 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

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength. Download This Image

    I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses. Download This Image

    How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives. Download This Image

    Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything. Download This Image

    That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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    Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

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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 - The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world. Download This Image

    The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

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