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      "text": "Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with it all over the places the child loved on earth. The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth.",
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      "text": "We sometimes live to three hundred years, but when we cease to exist here we only become the foam on the surface of the water, and we have not even a grave down here of those we love. We have not immortal souls,because Estelle is a star and we shall never live again; but, like the green sea-weed, when once it has been cut off, we can never flourish more. Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars. As we rise out of the water, and behold all the land of the earth, so do they rise to unknown and glorious regions which we shall never see.",
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      "text": "\"But he has nothing on at all,\" said a little child at last. \"Good heavens! listen to the voice of an innocent child,\" said the father, and one whispered to the other what the child had said. \"But he has nothing on at all,\" cried at last the whole people. That made a deep impression upon the emperor, for it seemed to him that they were right; but he thought to himself, \"Now I must bear up to the end.\" And the chamberlains walked with still greater dignity, as if they carried the train which did not exist.",
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      "text": "\"I can give her no greater power than she has already,\" said the woman; \"don't you see how strong that is? How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has got through the world, barefooted as she is. She cannot receive any power from me greater than she now has, which consists in her own purity and innocence of heart. If she cannot herself obtain access to the Snow Queen, and remove the glass fragments from little Kay, we can do nothing to help her.\"",
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