„Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater.“

— Hans Christian Andersen

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„It seems as if the female spirit of the world were mourning everlastingly over blessings, not lost, but which she has never had, and which, in her discouragement she feels that she never will have, they are so far off.“
— Florence Nightingale
„She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.“
— Hans Christian Andersen
„For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.“
— Ayn Rand
„Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.“
— Jane Austen