"I feel like a small battlefield in which……" — Etty Hillesum
"I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can hope to do is keep oneself humbly available, to allow oneself to be a battlefield. After all, the problems must be accommodated, have somewhere to struggle and come to rest and we, poor little humans, must put our inner space at their service and not run away."
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41 Quotes by Etty Hillesum
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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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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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Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
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