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Travelling expands the mind rarely.
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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The sun shines upon good and bad alike.
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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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I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold.
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Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with it all over the places the child loved on earth. The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth.
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She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.
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A human life is a story told by God.
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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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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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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?
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But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.
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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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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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Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die? No, said the Old Oak it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of. Well, then, said the little May-fly, we have the same time to live only we reckon differently.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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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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Where words fail, music speaks.
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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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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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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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