function over form

“…and one day I may perhaps discover a peaceful space round me which is mine alone and then I shall sit there for as long as it takes, even if it should be a year, until life begins to bubble up in me again…”

Etty Hillesum, fom a diary entry featured in An Interrupted Life: the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork
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“My anti-social tendencies, even with people I know well, are going to be very strained – unless I get drunk. And I don’t feel like it. Shall read a little and try another sleep later. Don’t mind really as long as I don’t have to lie there in the dark and chase after my mind.”

Richard Burton, from a diary entry written c. January 1966
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