Anne Frank — "I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains."

"I want to go on living even after my death!"

"It's an odd feeling, writing in a diary. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings …"

"I must work, so that I shall not be a burden to anyone."

"Who would ever think that so much can go on in the soul of a young girl?"

"I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death. I see the world gradually being transformed into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us …"