It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I - nor for that matter anyone else - will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old school girl.
("The Diary of a Young Girl")
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Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately.
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I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.
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We are shut up here, shut away from the world, in fear and anxiety, especially just lately. Why, then, would we who love each other remain apart? Why should we wait until we've reached suitable age? Why should we bother?
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