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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. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over.

Anne Frank

Anne Frank (1929–1945), German Jewish refugee, diarist. The Diary of a Young Girl, journal entry, December 22, 1942 (1947, trans. 1952).

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