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All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses.
Heinrich Heine
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Heinrich Heine
Age: 58 †
Born: 1797
Born: December 13
Died: 1856
Died: February 17
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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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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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