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“Oh God, I thank You for having created me as I am. I thank You for the sense of fulfillment I sometimes have; that fulfillment is after all nothing but being filled with You. I promise You to strive my whole life long for beauty and harmony and also humility and true love, whispers of which I hear inside me during my best moments.”

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Book:An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork
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“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.”

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