Etty Hillesum - Strength Quotes

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

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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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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.

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