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“The day began so well, with my head bright and clear, and I made up my mind to write it all down later. But later came a really bad fit of depression, an inescapable pressure in my skull and gloomy thoughts, much too gloomy to bear for long, and behind it all the emptiness of my quest; but that’s something else I shall have to fight.”
— Etty Hillesum (1914-1943), a diary note of Sunday, 9 March [1941] in “An Interrupted Life: Diaries and Letters 1941-43. And Letters from Westerbork″