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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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In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.
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Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.
Hans Christian Andersen
When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.
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We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.
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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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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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The naive was only a part of my fairy tales humour was the real salt in them.
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Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.
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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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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this? Yes, the little mermaid said in a trembling voice, as she thought of the Prince and of gaining a human soul.
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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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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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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
Hans Christian Andersen
Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.
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Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!
Hans Christian Andersen
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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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
Hans Christian Andersen
The sun shines upon good and bad alike.
Hans Christian Andersen
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Hans Christian Andersen
