Anne Frank Quotes

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It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I — nor for that matter anyone else — will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

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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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Leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing

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In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.

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How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!

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If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.

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Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears; in fact, you could spend the whole day crying.

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Looking back, I realize that this period of my life has irrevocably come to a close; my happy-go-lucky, carefree schooldays are gone forever. I don't even miss them. I've outgrown them. I can no longer just kid around, since my serious side is always there.

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Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.

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Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for... artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountians of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?

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But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

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Once again St. Nicholas Day Has even come to our hideaway; It won't be quite as fun, I fear, As the happy day we had last year. Then we were hopeful, no reason to doubt That optimism would win the bout, And by the time this year came round, We'd all be free, and safe and sound. Still, let's not forget it's St. Nicholas Day, Though we've nothing left to give away. We'll have to find something else to do: So everyone please look in their shoe!

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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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What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again.

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They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.

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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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You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them.

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If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

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I've found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.

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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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Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

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A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery

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What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.

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I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for giving me this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me.

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Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.

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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

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People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.

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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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We're all alive, but we don't know why or what for; we're all searching for happiness; we're all leading lives which are different and yet the same.

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A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the One and Only to anyone.

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