"Here, beside this great black surface that is……" — Etty Hillesum
"Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island."
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41 Quotes by Etty Hillesum
Etty Hillesum has 41 quotes on this site.
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There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my…
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As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good…
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I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being…
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It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that…
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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…
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To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or…
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Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of…
— Teresa of Avila
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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while…
— Honore de Balzac
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Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
— Aeschylus
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But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.
— Usain Bolt
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Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that…
— Moustapha Akkad
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I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
— Michael Caine
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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk…
— Albert Camus
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the…
— Marc Chagall
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