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Quotation from The True Story of My Life by Hans Christian Andersen
“My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.”
The True Story of My Life, Chapter I, trans. Mary Howitt
The opening sentence, which frames the whole autobiography as a kind of fairy tale.
Citation: "My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident." — Hans Christian Andersen, The True Story of My Life, Chapter I, trans. Mary Howitt. (id the-true-story-of-my-life-q1)
Portrait: Hans Christian Andersen by Thora Hallager 1869, Thora Hallager, Public domain.
