“It was the last night that she would breathe the same air as he, or look out over the deep sea and up into the star-blue heaven. A dreamless, eternal night awaited her, for she had no soul and had not been able to win one.”
Quote by Hans Christian Andersen
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The Little Mermaid and Other Tales
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