"Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude."
"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."
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Source: Anne Frank (1989). “The diary of a young girl”, Pocket
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