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" 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. "

Anne Frank

People

Think

" 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! "

" The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. "

" I live in a crazy time. "

" 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. "

Anne Frank

World

Care

" How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. "

" He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery! "

" 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. "

Anne Frank

Myself

Book

" Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. "

" No one has ever become poor by giving. "

" Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. "

" If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself. "

" Whoever is happy will make others happy too. "

" This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I'd call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I'd take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor's room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good. "

Anne Frank

Dog

Good

" 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. "

" 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! "

" I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out. "

" Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 schoolgirl. "

" I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. "

" 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. "

" When I write, I can shake off all my cares. "

" 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? "

" 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. "