Etty Hillesum Quotes:
Ocupation: Woman of letters
Life: January 15, 1914 - November 30, 1943
Birthday: January 15
Death: November 30
By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life has, so to speak, been extended by death, by my looking death in the eye and accepting it, by accepting destruction as part of life and no longer wasting my energies on fear of death or the refusal to acknowledge its inevitability. It sounds paradoxical: by excluding death from our life we cannot live a full life, and by admitting death into our life we enlarge and enrich it.
topic: Mean, Eye, Reality, Reality Of Death
