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Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.
-Etty Hillesum
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Despite Everything, Life Is Full Of Beauty

Etty Hillesum
Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.
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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. no reality fits an ideology. life is beyond that. that is why people are always searching for a meaning to life. but life has no meaning; it cannot have meaning because meaning is a formula; meaning is something that makes sense to the mind. every time you make sense out of reality, you bump into something that destroys the sense you made . meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning.
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Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. what previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.
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Let us thank god for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that day is to have meaning; silence, that speech is to have meaning; illness, that health is to have meaning; war, that peace is to have meaning. let us give thanks to him for having given us weariness and pain, so that rest and joy are to have meaning. let us give thanks to him, whose wisdom is infinite.
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Somewhere in the center of my soul, a rusty chain began to unwind. it freed itself, link by link, from where it had rested, unobserved, waiting for him. my hands, which had been balled up and pressed against his chest, unfurled with it. the chain continued to drop, to an unfathomable depth where there was nothing but darkness and matthew. at last it snapped to its full length, anchoring me to a vampire. despite the manuscript, despite the fact that my hands contained enough voltage to run a microwave, and despite the photograph, as long as i was connected to him, i was safe.
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It is not expensive to be beautiful. it takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. but it takes some effort. and unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, ... or extravagance. beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is god and love made real. and the ultimate reach in this world is beauty.
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