https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:12:06 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/hillesum-etty/1886/ https://wist.info/hillesum-etty/1886/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=1886 Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won’t work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

Esther "Etty" Hillesum (1914-1943) Dutch Jewish law graduate, writer, diarist
Diary (1941-10-22)
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Collected in An Interrupted Life [Het Verstoorde Leven] (1981) [tr. Pomerans (1983)]. ]]> https://wist.info/hillesum-etty/1886/feed/ 0 1886 https://wist.info/hillesum-etty/62427/ https://wist.info/hillesum-etty/62427/#respond Mon, 07 Aug 2023 20:43:39 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=62427 If one burdens the future with one’s worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.

Esther "Etty" Hillesum (1914-1943) Dutch Jewish law graduate, writer, diarist
Diary (1942-06-11)
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Collected in An Interrupted Life [Het Verstoorde Leven] (1981) [tr. Pomerans (1983)]. ]]> https://wist.info/hillesum-etty/62427/feed/ 0 62427