journal4life reblogged
“We are but hollow vessels, washed through by history. Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.”
— Etty Hillesum (1914-1943), a diary note of Friday, 1 June, 7AM [1941] in “An Interrupted Life: Diaries and Letters 1941-43. And Letters from Westerbork″