The Sky
'But above the one narrow path still left to us stretches the sky, in fact they can't do anything to us, they really can't. They can rob us of our material goods,of our freedom of movement, but we ourselves forfeit our greatest assets by our misguided compliance. By our feelings of being prosecuted, humiliated and oppressed. By our swagger, which hides our fear. We may of course be sad and depressed by what has been done to us, that is only human and understandable. However, our greatest injury is one we inflict upon ourselves. I find life beautiful, and I feel free. The sky within me is as wide as the stretching above my head.'
30 November 1943; The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-1943; Westerbork Camp
