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Anne Frank (1929-1945)

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Anne Frank was a Jewish girl in Amsterdam who kept a diary while she lived with her family and others hidden in an attic from the Nazi occupiers of the Netherlands. Anne Frank died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945. Anne Frank and her diary provide a unique insight into day-to-day life during the Nazi regime.

Selected Anne Frank Quotations

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

• In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

• We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

• 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 and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

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

• Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

• Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

• No one has ever become poor by giving.

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Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection © Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2009. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the original source if it is not listed with the quote.

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