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Quotation from The True Story of My Life by Hans Christian Andersen

“That was the darkest, the most unhappy time in my life.”

Hans Christian Andersen

The True Story of My Life, Chapter III, trans. Mary Howitt

Portrait of Hans Christian Andersen

After the rector calls his poem The Dying Child sentimentality and idle trash.

Citation: "That was the darkest, the most unhappy time in my life." — Hans Christian Andersen, The True Story of My Life, Chapter III, trans. Mary Howitt. (id the-true-story-of-my-life-q6)

Portrait: Hans Christian Andersen by Thora Hallager 1869, Thora Hallager, Public domain.

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