„The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.“

— Joseph Campbell

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„If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.“
— Albert Einstein
„When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!“
— Lewis Carroll
„There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.“
— Paulo Coelho