"Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning."

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Source : Etty Hillesum (1986). “Letters from Westerbork”, Pantheon

Etty Hillesum

#Life Is Quotes

“The charm of a woodland road lies not only in its beauty but in anticipation. Around each bend may be a discovery, an adventure.”
“Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.”
“Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.”
“But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?”

Source : Billie Burke (2015). “With A Feather On My Nose”, p.248, Pickle Partners Publishing
“At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.”
“I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.”
“My mind to me an empire is.”

Source : Saint Robert Southwell, William Joseph Walter (1817). “St. Peter's Complaint: And Other Poems”, p.55
“Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.”

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