QUOTES by Hans Christian Andersen
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"You’re a fine one for tramping around,” the bandit girl said to Kai. “I’d like to know – do you really deserve to have someone run to the end of the world just for your sake?"
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"Flew out and bit him in the neck. "Let him alone," said the mother, "he is not doing any harm." "Yes, but he"
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"The heart that one can see clearly, for the most essential things are invisible"
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"The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth."
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"But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock."
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"He reached a poor little cottage that seemed ready to fall, and only remained standing because it could not decide on which side to fall first"
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"There was once a king's son. Nobody had so many or such beautiful books as he had. He could read about everything which had ever happened in the world, and see it all represented in the most beautiful pictures."
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"Push it myself." On the next day the weather was delightful, and the sun shone brightly on the green burdock"
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"Pop, pop," sounded in the air, and the two wild geese fell dead among the rushes, and the water was tinged with blood."
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"Grant�not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not;"
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"Because she could not go near all these wonderful things, she longed for them all the more."
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"Well, that's not easy to answer when the question is so stupidly put..."
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"Autumn came, and the leaves in the forest turned to orange and gold. Then, as winter approached, the wind caught them as they fell"
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"I think I will sit on it a little while longer," said the duck, "as I have sat so long already, a few days will be nothing." "Please yourself," said the old duck, and she went away."
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"Her tender feet felt as if cut with sharp knives, but she cared not for it; a sharper pang had pierced through her heart."
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"She was so young that love was still a game to her. . . . She was being neither fair nor clever, but Babette was only nineteen years old."
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"No one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or unfit of his office."
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"Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps."
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"When we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now..."
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"Yes, it is wonderful to be alive! Indeed, the Bottle inwardly sang of all this, as do young poets, who frequently also know nothing about the things of which they sing." From The Bottle Neck"
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"At leve er ikke nok. Solskin, frihed og en lille blomst m� man ha"
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"Where are your sons?" asked the prince. "Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!" said the woman."
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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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"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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"He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him;"
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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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"Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether."
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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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"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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"They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate."
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"Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater."
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