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Quotes from The Red Shoes — Hans Christian Andersen

1805–1875 Denmark

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Dance you shall,” said he, “dance in your red shoes till you are pale and cold, till your skin shrivels up and you are a skeleton! Dance you shall, from door to door, and where proud and wicked children live you shall knock, so that they may hear you and fear you! Dance you shall, dance—!

The Red Shoes (1845)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hans Christian Andersen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.