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Etty Hillesum has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as…
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As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of…
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I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out.…
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It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks…
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I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to…
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To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse,…
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Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental…
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Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.
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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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Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out…
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We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
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That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect…
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The perfection of rottenness.
— William James
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Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of…
— Saint Augustine
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He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man…
— Unknown Author
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I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate evil,…
— George Lincoln Rockwell
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Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living…
— Andrew Mellon
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The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day.
— Karl Kautsky
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If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
— John Milton
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
— Beatrix Potter
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Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness
— Mark Twain
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It is not to save capitalism that we fight in Russia … It is for a revolution of our own. … If…
— Leon Degrelle
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