Well, it’s not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENHe looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep himself erect, shouldering his gun bravely.
More Hans Christian Andersen Quotes
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Each time I think that the song is ended … something higher and better begins for me.
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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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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.
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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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I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.
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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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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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Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!
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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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Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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