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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
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Frankfurt/Main
Anna Frank
Anne Maries Frank
Ana Frank
Anne M. Frank
Annelies Marie Frank
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Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions.
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I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.
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A quiet conscience makes one strong!
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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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I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
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And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.
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by thinking, nobody can ever get worse but will only get better.
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I want something from Daddy that he is not able to give me. ... It is only that I long for Daddy's real love: not only as his child, but for me - Anne, myself.
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The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.
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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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I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.
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Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.
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I don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.
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Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
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I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while my dearest friends have been knocked down or have fallen into a gutter somewhere out in the cold night. I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into the hands of the cruelest brutes that walk the earth. And all because they are Jews!
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I simply can't imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about after the war, but it's as if I'm talking about a castle in the air, something that can never come true.
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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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