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"I only do His will, replied Decease. I am his gardener. I take all His flowers and trees, and transplant them into the gardens of Paradise in an unknown land. How they flourish there, and what that garden resembles, I may non tell you lot."
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Female parent

"And the Summit spoke no more of his erstwhile love; for that dies away when the honey objects has lain for five years in a roof gutter and got moisture through; yep, one does not know her again when i meets her in the dust box."
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Superlative And The Ball

"mermaids have no tears, and therefore they suffer more."
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Picayune Mermaid

"Where are your sons?" asked the prince.
"Well, information technology's non and so easy to give an respond when you ask a stupid question!" said the woman."
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise

"Life itself is the nigh wonderful fairytale."
― Hans Christian Andersen

"She was so young that honey was still a game to her. . . . She was being neither fair nor clever, but Babette was only nineteen years onetime."
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Complete Fairy Tales

"We have not immortal souls, nosotros shall never alive once again; but, like the green sea-weed, when once it has been cutting off, we tin never flourish more than. Human being beings, on the contrary, take a soul which lives forever, lives later the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air across the glittering stars. As nosotros rise out of the h2o, and behold all the land of the globe, and so do they rise to unknown and glorious regions which we shall never encounter."
― Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

"What ticks in the clock, beats here with strong strokes of the hammer. It is Bloodless, who drank life from human thought and thereby got limbs of metals, rock and wood; it is Anemic, who past human thought gained strength, which human himself does not physically possess. Anemic reigns in Motala, and through the large foundries and factories he extends his hard limbs, whose joints and parts consist of wheel within wheel, chains, bars, and thick iron wires."
― Hans Christian Andersen, Pictures of Sweden

"No one would allow that he could not come across these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or unfit of his part."
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"the heart that 1 can see clearly, for the nearly essential things are invisible"
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling

"Almost of the people who volition walk after me will be children, and then make the beat keep time with brusk steps."
― Hans Christian Andersen

"Every person'south life is a fairytale written past God's fingers."
― Hans Christian Andersen

"Só se um ser humano a amasse tanto que você importasse mais para ele que pai due east mãe. Se ele a amasse de todo o coração e deixasse o padre pôr a mão direita sobre a sua como uma promessa de ser fiel due east verdadeiro por toda a eternidade. Nesse caso, a alma dele deslizaria para dentro do seu corpo e você, também, obteria uma parcela da felicidade humana. Ele lhe daria uma alma e, no entanto, conservaria a dele próprio."
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Petty Mermaid

"Yes, it is wonderful to be alive! Indeed, the Canteen inwardly sang of all this, as do immature poets, who oftentimes also know zilch well-nigh the things of which they sing." From The Canteen Neck"
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"...when a storm was coming on, and they anticipated that a transport might sink, they swam before information technology, and sang nearly sweetly of the delight to be found beneath the water, begging the seafarers not to exist afraid of coming down below."
― Hans Christian Anderson

"They told tales as they saturday at their work, and every one related what wonderful things he had seen or experienced. One afternoon I heard an old man among them say that God knew every thing, both what had happened and what would happen. That idea occupied my whole mind, and towards evening, equally I went alone from the court, where there was a deep swimming, and stood upon some stones which were just within the water, the thought passed through my caput, whether God actually knew everything which was to happen there. Yes, he has now determined that I should alive and be so many years old, thought I; merely, if I now were to jump into the water here and drown myself, and so it would not be as he wished; and all at once I was firmly and resolutely determined to drown myself. I ran to where the water was deepest, and then a new thought passed through my soul. "It is the devil who wishes to take power over me!" I uttered a loud cry, and, running abroad from the place as if I were pursued, vicious weeping into my mother's artillery. But neither she nor whatsoever one else could wring from me what was amiss with me."
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

"Because she could non go near all these wonderful things, she longed for them all the more than."
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"Now he is certainly sailing above, he on whom my wishes hang, and in whose hand I should like to lay my life'south happiness. I will dare everything to win him and an immortal soul."
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Picayune Mermaid

"Имаше на една маса две курабийки, едната във форма на мъж с шапка на главата, другата - жена без шапка, но украсена с някаква захарна пяна ... Мъжът имаше от лявата страна една горчива ядка, която представляваше сърцето му, жената, напротив, бе от чиста захар. Те лежеха на масата за реклама и лежаха дълго, и се влюбиха, но не откриха любовта си ...
Той е мъж, той трябва да каже първата дума, мислеше тя, но бе доволна само от туй, че любовта ѝ с любов среща.
Дни и седмици те лежаха на масата и изсъхнаха. Мислите на жената ставаха все по-нежни и по-женствени. Достатъчно е, че съм близо до него, мислеше тя и в туй време се пукна през средата.
Да би знаяла моята любов, би издържала повече, мислеше той."
― Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-Tree

"ele pediu-me para rezar, mas eu só me lembrava da tabuada"
― Hans Christian Andersen

"I retrieve I volition sit on it a fiddling while longer," said the duck, "as I have sabbatum then long already, a few days will be aught." "Please yourself," said the old duck, and she went away."
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling

"cry then strange that information technology frightened him."
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling

"It is just with the centre that ane tin can see clearly, for the near essential things are invisible to the center." – ANTONIE DE SAINTE EXUPERY"
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling

"Well, that's not easy to answer when the question is so stupidly put..."
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise

"Oh," said the mother, "that is not a turkey. How well he uses his legs, and how upright he holds himself! He is my ain child, and he is not and so very ugly after all if y'all expect at him properly. Quack, quack! Come with me at present. I will have you into m society, and innovate you to the farmyard, but yous must continue close to me or you lot may be trodden upon. And, above all, beware of the true cat." When they reached the farmyard,"
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling

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