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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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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Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.
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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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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.
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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 the Emperor has nothing at all on!
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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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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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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold.
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Every town, like every man, has its own countenance they have a common likeness and yet are different one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.
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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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