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If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.

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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Engrossed
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People
Mingle
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Riches, power and fame last only for a few years! Why do people cling so desperately to these transitory things? Why can't people who have more than they need for themselves give that surplus to their fellow citizens? Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?
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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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In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
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Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
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But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible!
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It is becoming a bad dream-- in the daytime as well as at night. I see him nearly all the time and can't get at him, I mustn't show anything, must remain gay while I'm really in despair.
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I love the time I spend with you. You make my living worth-while. Why dint I meet you before. I wish I could start my life From the beginning with you because the time I spend with you is never enough. I need you more everyday.
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Our blessed radio. It gives us eyes and ears out into the world. We listen to the German station only for good music. And we listen to the BBC for hope.
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I want to go on living after my death!
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Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
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Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.
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it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.
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In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
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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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Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.
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You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.
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As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?
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Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
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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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Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.
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