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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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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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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Almighty God, thee only have I thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does!
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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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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
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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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I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold.
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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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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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But the Emperor has nothing at all on!
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.
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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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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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Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!
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But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.
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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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The naive was only a part of my fairy tales humour was the real salt in them.
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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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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