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A human life is a story told by God.
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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Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.
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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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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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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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The sun shines upon good and bad alike.
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But the Emperor has nothing at all on!
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I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold.
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There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides, with silver money. But he didn't do it--he knew better how to use his money than that.
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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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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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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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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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Where words fail, music speaks.
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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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To travel is to live.
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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
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She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.
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To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.
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