"When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived."
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"I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt."
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"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart."
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"Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters."
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"I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again."
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"Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?"
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"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 indepedent of anyone."
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"I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more."
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"Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?"
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"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."
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"I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary."
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"I live in a crazy time."
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"You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy."
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"I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten."
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"I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be happy too."
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"A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery"
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"Riches, power and fame last only for a few years! Why do people cling so desperately to these transitory things? Why can't people who have more than they need for themselves give that surplus to their fellow citizens? Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?"
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"As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?"
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"What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews."
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"We aren't allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think."
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