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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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Ask me not what I have, but what I am.
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A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.
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Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid
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Twelve Dancings are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press'd And soon as a dance has come to a close, Another begins, and each merrily goes.
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The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.
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The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling.
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Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity.
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He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.
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Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.
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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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Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.
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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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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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Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.
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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
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Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
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We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged
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My heart resembles the ocean has storm, and ebb and flow and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.
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Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears.
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Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.
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