“I can't imagine how anyone can say: "I'm weak," and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: "Because it's so much easier not to!”

—  Anne Frank

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

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victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929–1945

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