I don't want followers, but friends, admirers who fall not for a flattering smile but for what one does and for one's character.
I know quite well that the circle around me would be much smaller. But what does that matter, as long as one still keeps a few sincere friends?
#AnneFrank (1929-1945) in a letter to her diary dated 7 March 1944. AF was 14 years old at the time, she died about a year later.