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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.

Anne Frank

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Anne Frank
Age: 15 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 12
Died: 1945
Died: March 31
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Frankfurt/Main
Anna Frank
Anne Maries Frank
Ana Frank
Anne M. Frank
Annelies Marie Frank
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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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I want to go on living even after my death, And therefore I am grateful to God For giving this gift... Of expressing all that is in me.
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How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day.
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The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.
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Deep down I know I could never be that innocent again, however much I'd like to be.
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Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.
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I can shake off everything as I write my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.
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I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
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