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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 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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God will pardon me. It is His trade.
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Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.
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The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun.
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Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.
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Our sweetest hopes rise blooming. And then again are gone, They bloom and fade alternate, And so it goes rolling on. I know it, and it troubles My life, my love, my rest, My heart is wise and witty, And it bleeds within my breast.
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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
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The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.
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Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid
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On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering, glimmering flutterer fair. And many a foolish young beetle's impressed By the blue gauze gown in which she is dressed They admire the enamel that decks her bright, And her elegant waist so slim and slight.
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Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.
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The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.
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Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.
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You talk of our having an idea we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.
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Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Oh, what lies there are in kisses!
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Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above.
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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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I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan He is not ugly, and is not lame, But really a handsome and charming man. A man in the prime of life is the devil, Obliging, a man of the world, and civil A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate, He talks quite glibly of church and state.
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Where words leave off, music begins.
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