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.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENA mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny.
More Hans Christian Andersen Quotes
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The sun shines upon good and bad alike.
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I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change.
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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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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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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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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.
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I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one’s old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers.
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To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.
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Don’t ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!
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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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Well, it’s not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!
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Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.
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The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.
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Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.
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She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.
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