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Don’t ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!

Hans Christian Andersen

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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Dead Father Human Men People
He 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.
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Gun Heart Morning
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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Memories Names Real
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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Father Happen Mother Winning
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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Age Fleeting Thinking
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
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Men Wise Writing
A human life is a story told by God.
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Condolences Grief Human Life Sympathy
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.
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Fairy Tale Real Salt
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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Littles might Money Street Use
A 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.
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Destiny Eternal Mermaid Winning
The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.
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Men Wiser Wisest
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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Day Eye Fairy One Spiritual Talks
She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.
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Heart Laugh Thoughts Of Death
The sun shines upon good and bad alike.
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Bad Good Shining Sun
Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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Flower Nature Philosophical
Well, it’s not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!
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Answers Giving Stupid

Don’t ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!

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