"We have to fight them daily, lake fleas,……" — Etty Hillesum
"We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies."
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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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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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