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“Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.”

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Book:Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
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