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" After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews. "
Good
Trouble
Started
" 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 independent of anyone. "
Child
Ideas
Feel
" 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. "
Good
World
People
" Because we're Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam. "
Father
Used
Director
" Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. "
Prevent
Will
Only
" Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. "
People
Believe
Good
" Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! "
Love
Know
Good
" Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers? "
World
Women
People
" He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery! "
Courage
Will
Who
" How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. "
Inspirational
Need
Wait
" 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. "
Character
People
Power
" I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. "
Still
Remains
Misery
" I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death! "
Want
People
Living
" If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself. "
Always
Writing
I Can
" If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer. "
Myself
Book
Me
" I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don't seem to be able to get any closer, and that's the problem. "
Family
True Friend
Time
" I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing. "
Never
Romantic
Treat
" I live in a crazy time. "
Time
Crazy
Live
" I'm afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I'm afraid they'll mock me, think I'm ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I'm used to not being taken seriously, but only the 'light-hearted' Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the 'deeper' Anne is too weak. "
People
Think
Better
" I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out. "
Will
Time
Carry
" In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit. "
Weapon
Gentle
Kind
" I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more. "
Sky
Peace
End
" I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. "
Foundation
Peace
Death
" 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. "
Hard
Heart
Now
" I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway. "
Me
World
Care
" Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. "
Work
Attractive
Laziness
" My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her. "
Push
Win
You
" No one has ever become poor by giving. "
Ever
Become
Poor
" No one knows Anne's better side, and that's why most people can't stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone's had enough of me to last a month. "
Clown
Better
Stand
" The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. "
Nature
God
Alone
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