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Biography - Hans Christian Andersen:

Danish author.
Born: 1805 - Died: 1875
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: Denmark
Denmark

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."


"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."

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Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
« Ce n'est pas tout de vivre » dit le Papillon, « encore faut-il la liberté, un rayon de soleil et une petite fleur. »

German
„Leben ist nicht genug", sagte der Schmetterling. „Sonnenschein, Freiheit und eine kleine Blume muss man auch haben."




See also 

See also...



Very little is needed to make a happy life.




Quotes for: to live


Quotes

Quotes for: to live


True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.





To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





My trade and art is to live.





You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.











Quotes for: freedom


Quotes

Quotes about freedom:


There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.





One is not born, but rather becomes, free.





This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.





Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.





People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.





Article I – Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be founded only on the common good.











Quotes for: flower


Quotes

Quotes for: flower


To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.






I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.





Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.





Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.





Earth laughs in flowers.





Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches,
And here is my heart which beats only for you.












Quotes

Hans Christian Andersen also said...


“But he has nothing on at all,” said a little child at last.





Life is the most wonderful fairy tale.





Where words fail, music speaks.





The world is not so bad after all, if you know how to take things as they come.












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