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Anne Frank Inspirational Quotes (195)

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I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.
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I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.
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There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!
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Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year old school girl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing.
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Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.
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An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night.
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leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing
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There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again
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Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions.
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People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.
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I want to go on living after my death!
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I think a lot, but I don't say much.
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Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?
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He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.
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Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.
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I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.
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Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for ... artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountians of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?
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In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.
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I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!
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Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.
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but i've slammed the door to my inner self if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!
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At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here.
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Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the Secret Annexe. The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.
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One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over.
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