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.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENShe 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.
More Hans Christian Andersen Quotes
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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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The sun shines upon good and bad alike.
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Well, it’s not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!
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I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow.
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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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She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.
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Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.
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Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. – The sea witch.
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A human life is a story told by God.
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Don’t ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!
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Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.
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Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
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Each time I think that the song is ended … something higher and better begins for me.
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Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.
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