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Etty Hillesum Quotes about Writing

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 deed.

Etty Hillesum

Believe, Creativity, Writing

Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.318, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the fact that their heart is able to long so hard and to love so much as among their greatest blessings.

Etty Hillesum

Writing, Heart, Loss

Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.637, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.

Etty Hillesum

Writing, Born

Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.341, 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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