After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.
Source: An interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-1943, 1983.
-- Etty Hillesum, (Jan 15 1914-1943), Dutch lawyer, writer; She is remembered for An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943; died in Auschwitz, 1943.