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.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENDon’t ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!
More Hans Christian Andersen Quotes
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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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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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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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The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.
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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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The sun shines upon good and bad alike.
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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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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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Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer’s evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.
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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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Each time I think that the song is ended … something higher and better begins for me.
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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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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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Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.
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