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Quote from "The Snow Queen" (1844)

"Why aren't there any roses here?" said Gerda. She rushed out among the flower beds, and she looked and she looked, but there wasn't a rose to be seen. Then she sat down and cried. But her hot tears fell on the very spot where a rose bush had sunk into the ground, and when her warm tears moistened the earth the bush sprang up again, as full of blossoms as when it disappeared. Gerda hugged it, and kissed the roses. She remembered her own pretty roses, and thought of little Kay.

Source: Jean Hersholt's translation of "The Snow Queen"

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Registered motifs in this quote:

1. Love and tears release the soul
2. Magic

Keywords: Roses, love, tears, earth, soil

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