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Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, i feel as though i am on a desert island.
-Etty Hillesum
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Here, Beside This Great Black Surface That

Etty Hillesum
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, i feel as though i am on a desert island.
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You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island that he would need it most. let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today - and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.
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