Hans Christian Andersen
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"Hans Christian Andersen" was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories, called in Danish, or "fairy-tales" in English, express themes that transcend age and nationality.

Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. Some of his most famous fairy tales include "The Little Mermaid", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Nightingale (fairy tale)/The Nightingale", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and many more.

His stories have inspired plays, ballets, and both live-action and animated films.

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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

Where words fail, music speaks.

And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. She took the little maiden, on her arm, and both flew in brightness and in joy so high, so very high, and then above was neither cold, nor hunger, nor anxiety--they were with God.

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.

The technique of remote interpreting is more appropriate for meetings such as those with, say, 15 people speaking one after the other from notes and with a clear running order rather than those where there are fast-moving negotiations and lots of give and take.

`But the Emperor has nothing on at all!' said a little child.

Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when--the match went out. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven . . .