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We can't control our destiny, but we can control who we become.

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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Become

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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
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Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.
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What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.
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I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
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People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.
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As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?
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There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.
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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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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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Go outsideamidst the simple beauty of natureand know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.
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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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If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.
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