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Hans Christian Andersen
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Hans Christian Andersen
Age: 70 †
Born: 1805
Born: April 2
Died: 1875
Died: August 4
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When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.
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Farewell, farewell, said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales. The swallow sang Tweet, tweet, and from his song came the whole story.
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Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
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To travel is to live.
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Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.
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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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But the Emperor has nothing at all on!
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The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.
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It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.
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We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendour that God has created, but we shall get them one day and that will be the finest fairy tale of all, for we shall be in it ourselves.
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It is out of reality that the most peculiar tale of all is born ... Some call me the Elder Granny, others - the Dryad, but my real name is Memory. It is I who sits on a tree that keeps on growing, and growing, it is I who reminisces and tells stories.
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Almighty God, thee only have I thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does!
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He found whole figures which represented a written word but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted - that word was 'eternity', and the Snow Queen had said, If you can discover that figure, you shall be your own master, and I will make you a present of the whole world and a pair of new skates. But he could not find it out.
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But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.
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