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It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.
Heinrich Heine
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Heinrich Heine
Age: 58 †
Born: 1797
Born: December 13
Died: 1856
Died: February 17
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Christian Johann Heinrich Heine
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The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.
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I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
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Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.
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Out of my own great woe I make my little songs.
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Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.
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The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather- beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins.
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A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.
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In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.
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The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
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Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
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It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.
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When'er into thine eyes I see, All pain and sorrow fly from me. [Ger., Wenn ich in deine Augen sch' So schwindet all' mein Leid und Weh.]
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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
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Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.
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I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
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Matrimony the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
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Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.
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The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips, especially when it has been multiplied by the press.
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