Hans Christian Andersen Quotes

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• Where words fail, music speaks.
• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
• Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
• Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
• Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
• Travelling expands the mind rarely.
• We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendor that God has created, but we shall get them one day, and that…
• Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence
• Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
• I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow…
• I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least…
• But the Emperor has nothing at all on!
• My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
• Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.
• To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.
• The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them.
• Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
• 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…
• Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep;…
• 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…

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