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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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No, the light is too intense we do not yet have eyes that can see all the glory God has created. But maybe someday we will have such eyes. That will be the most wonderful fairy tale of all, for we ourselves will be part of it.
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But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.
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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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But the Emperor has nothing at all on!
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Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.
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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
Hans Christian Andersen
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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Each soldier was the living image of the others, but there was one who was a bit different. He had only one leg, for he was the last to be cast and the tin had run out. Still, there he stood, just as steadfast on his one leg as the others on their two and he is the tin soldier we are going to hear about.
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She thought, He whom I love more than my father or mother, he of whom I am always thinking, and in whose hands I would so willingly trust my lifelong happiness. I dare do anything to win him and to gain an immortal soul.
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If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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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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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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The naive was only a part of my fairy tales humour was the real salt in them.
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Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
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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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The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.
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But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?
Hans Christian Andersen
We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.
Hans Christian Andersen
Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.
Hans Christian Andersen
