"One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over."

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Source: Anne Frank (1993). “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl”, Bantam

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Anne Frank was a Jewish teenager whose diary chronicled her life in hiding during the Holocaust, offering profound insights into human nature and resilience.

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