"No one ever was the poorer for giving"
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"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."
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"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!"
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"I want to go on living after my death!"
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"I believe that in the course of the next century the notion that it's a woman's duty to have children will change and make way for the respect and admiration of all women, who bear their burdens without complaint or a lot of pompous words!"
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"At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here."
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"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."
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"I can't help telling you that I've begin to feel deserted."
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"Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again."
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"I must work, so as not to be a fool, to get on, to become a journalist, because that's what I want!... I can't imagine that I would have to lead the same sort of life as Mummyand all the women who do their work and are then forgotten. I must have something besides a husband and children, something that I can devote myself to!"
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"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."
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"It won't take long before I explode with pent-up rage."
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"Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions."
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"I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!"
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"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."
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"I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me."
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"I simply can't imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about "after the war," but it's as if I'm talking about a castle in the air, something that can never come true."
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"Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears; in fact, you could spend the whole day crying."
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"Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave."
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"Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill."
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