Anne Frank, diary entry (15 July 1944), published in Dutch (1947), translated by B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday (1952)

[I]n spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.

— Anne Frank on The Holocaust

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[I]n spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again." in the context of "Anne Frank, diary entry (15 July 1944), published in Dutch (1947), translated by B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday (1952)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Anne Frank

Annelies Marie Frank (12 June 1929 – February/March 1945) was a young German-born Jewish diarist and aspiring writer, who died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.