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• After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.

  Etty Hillesum

  Character, Creative, Moral

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.296, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Tenemos que luchar a diario contra ellas, contra las pulgas del lago, contra esas muchas pequeñas preocupaciones por el día de mañana, porque minan nuestras energías.

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  Fighting, Lakes, Worry

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• Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

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  Destiny, Luck, Would Be

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.62, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I'm afraid I did not pray hard enough last night.

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  Prayer, Night, Lasts

  Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”

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• Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

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  Trying, Nuance, Life Is

  Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”

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• Probablemente la codicia también esté presente en mi vida intelectual, ya que intento absorber una enorme cantidad de información con la consiguiente indigestión mental.

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  Greed, Intellectual, Information

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.146, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I keep remembering from my early student days how I would walk at night through the streets, my hands bunched into fists in the pocket of my coat, my head hunched deep into my collar, and how I used to say, 'I want to work, I shall work'--and then I would come back home and be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

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  Determination, Home, Night

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.317, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

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  Determination, Would Be, Exhausted

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.317, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

  Etty Hillesum

  Writing, Islands, Black

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.175, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

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  Strength, Fear, Thinking

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.535, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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