Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.
How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses. - Etty Hillesum
How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.
- Etty Hillesum
I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the … - Etty Hillesum
I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the …
I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a … - Etty Hillesum
I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a …
Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to esca… - Etty Hillesum
Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to esca…
The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us. - Etty Hillesum
The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.
It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember tha… - Etty Hillesum
It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember tha…
ought we not, from time to time, open ourselves up to cosmic sadness? ... Give your sorrow all the space and shelter in yourself that is its due, for… - Etty Hillesum
ought we not, from time to time, open ourselves up to cosmic sadness? ... Give your sorrow all the space and shelter in yourself that is its due, for…
By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life has, so to speak, been extended by death, … - Etty Hillesum
By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life has, so to speak, been extended by death, …
Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling … - Etty Hillesum
Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling …
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