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Anne Frank: One must apply...

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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.

Source: Diary entry for 22 Dec. 1942; The Diary of a Young Girl, 1947; tr. 1952.
-- Anne Frank, (Jun 12 1929-1945), German-Dutch diarist; Her diary depicted life as a young Jewish girl during WW II.


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