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Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

Anne Frank

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Anne Frank
Age: 15 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 12
Died: 1945
Died: March 31
Author
Diarist
Writer
Frankfurt/Main
Anna Frank
Anne Maries Frank
Ana Frank
Anne M. Frank
Annelies Marie Frank
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You can always-always-give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness! If everyone were to give in this way and didn't scrimp on kindly words, there would be much more love and justice in the world!
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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
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Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.
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I... keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world.
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Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters!
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I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble.
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I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude.
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The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.
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I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
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I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself these can all help you.
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One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.
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Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook, bearing the proud name of diary, to anyone, unless I find a real friend, boy or girl, probably nobody cares. And now I come to the root of the matter, the reason for my starting a diary: it is that I have no such real friend.
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I believe that in the course of the next century the notion that it's a woman's duty to have children will change and make way for the respect and admiration of all women, who bear their burdens without complaint or a lot of pompous words!
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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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No one has ever become poor by giving.
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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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Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
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I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
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How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!
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I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
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