It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical.
 Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (1947). copy citation

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Author Anne Frank
Source The Diary of a Young Girl
Topic reality hope
Date 1947
Language English
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Note Translated by Susan Massotty
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