Well, it’s not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENThe naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.
More Hans Christian Andersen Quotes
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Don’t ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!
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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 laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.
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Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.
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Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.
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A human life is a story told by God.
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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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The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.
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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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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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Each time I think that the song is ended … something higher and better begins for me.
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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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Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
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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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