“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”

— Anne Frank

As quoted in 7 Laws of Human Nature: The Oneness of Universal Love (2017) by Conrad Spainhower and other self-help books and quotation sites.
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victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929–1945

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