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I've read The Diary of Anne Frank six times, in several different versions, and so today I'd just like to share some of her words.

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

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.

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!

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

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

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.

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.

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

(from this website, as I don't have any of my copies at hand)

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I must admit that I've never read it, so thank you for sharing some of it. It amazes me how someone as young as her, who went through what she went through, could still have that same opinion about mankind.

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When I was twelve or so, an interest in Holocaust literature coincided with the general state of being an adolescent girl made me very, very attached to The Diary of Anne Frank. I have a collection of short stories and essays rescued from their hiding place, too. She was quite a good writer.

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Hmm, wow. I really should be ashamed of not having read them. I really should read them.

She had a Gift, to be able to see past what was all around her and get to the truth. Thanks for posting these.

*saves to memories*

Once I started reading it, but I couldn't finish. It was too hard. Like the movie "Schindler's List", never managed to finish that one either.
Probably, I'm too sensitive. Damn German history. I'm ashamed of it.

It took me three years from the first time I tried to watch "Schindler's List" until I could finally get all the way through it ::hugs:: My roommate just went on a school trip to Austria and Germany, to visit concentration camp sites. She took eight rolls of film, but said she just couldn't take any pictures in the gas chambers.

I was in the Czech Republic to visit the concentration camp of Theresienstadt. And, of course, I was in Dachau, Germany, because that's not far from where I live and I went there with my former class for history lessons. It was really saddening and sometimes, I almost couldn't breathe.

But the prison in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, where the Stasi of the GDR put their convicts in, was almost as shocking. I took some photos (including that of a padded cell) and I think I'll put them online some day. I'll tell you, if you're interested.

Wise words. Thanks, Dala.

I'm glad you appreciated :)