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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
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Frankfurt/Main
Anna Frank
Anne Maries Frank
Ana Frank
Anne M. Frank
Annelies Marie Frank
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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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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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People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.
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You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.
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I live in a crazy time.
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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... 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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Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.
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Sometimes I think God is trying to test me, both now and in the future. I'll have to become a good person on my own, without anyone to serve as a model or advise me, but it'll make me stronger in the end.
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There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again
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I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.
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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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Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
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The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland.
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Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.
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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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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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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
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