“I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.”
John Green (1977) American author and vlogger
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“I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.”
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5 April 1944
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
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The Infallibility of the Church (London: John Murray, 1888; 4th ed. 1914), p. 111 https://archive.org/stream/a607385500salmuoft#page/n143/mode/2up.
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Ik moet iets hebben naast man en kinderen waar ik me aan wijden kan! O ja, ik wil niet zoals de meeste mensen voor niets geleefd hebben. Ik wil van nut of plezier zijn voor de mensen, die om mij heen leven en die mij toch niet kennen.
5 April 1944
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)