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Etty Hillesum
Datum narození:15. leden 1914
Datum úmrtí:30. listopad 1943
Esther Hillesum byla Židovka, která ve svých dopisech a denících popsala život v Amsterdamu během nacistické okupace.
Citáty Etty Hillesum
„Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.“
— Etty Hillesum
Lettres De Westerbork
„I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.“
— Etty Hillesum
An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork
„Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them.“
— Etty Hillesum
An Interrupted Life
„Slowly but surely I have been soaking Rilke up these last few months: the man, his work and his life. And that is probably the only right way with literature, with study, with people or with anything else: to let it all soak in, to let it all mature slowly inside you until it has become a part of yourself. That, too, is a growing process. Everything is a growing process. And in between, emotions and sensations that strike you like lightning. But still the most important thing is the organic process of growing.“
— Etty Hillesum
An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork
