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You can get around to meaningful conversations more quickly in the dark than with the sun tickling your face.
I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.
There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!
As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?
This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.
This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood.
As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that your pure within and will find happiness once more.
Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.
I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.
I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.
Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.
but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.
it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.
Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears; in fact, you could spend the whole day crying.
Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.
I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.
This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.
Give and you shall receive, much more that you ever thought possible. Give and give again. People who give will never be poor!
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
The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
We lit the stove a few days ago and the entire room is filled with smoke. I prefer central heating, and I'm probably not the only one.
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.
I want to go on living even after my death, And therefore I am grateful to God For giving this gift... Of expressing all that is in me.
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.
Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot.
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.
Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.
I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble.
You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!
Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper.
I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude.
He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.
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.
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.
If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.
What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
Our blessed radio. It gives us eyes and ears out into the world. We listen to the German station only for good music. And we listen to the BBC for hope.
Another fact that doesn't exactly brighten up our days is that Mr. Van Maaren, the man who works in the warehouse, is getting suspicious about the Annex.
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.
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.
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.
I never utter my real feelings about anything. My lighter, superficial side will always be too quick for the deeper side of me, and that's why it always wins.
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.
I want something from Daddy that he is not able to give me. ... It is only that I long for Daddy's real love: not only as his child, but for me - Anne, myself.
I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.
Go outsideamidst the simple beauty of natureand know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.