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Heinrich Heine
Age: 58 †
Born: 1797
Born: December 13
Died: 1856
Died: February 17
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The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many a beetle with loud applause Admires her dress of azure gauze, Admires her body's bright splendour, And also her figure so slender...
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I do not know the meaning of my sadness there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.
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Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.
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The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
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He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.
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I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.
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Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
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Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
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It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
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A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.
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God will forgive me. It's his job.
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