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Out of my own great woe I make my little songs.
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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Christian Johann Heinrich Harry 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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Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.
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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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No talent, but yet a character. [Ger., Kein talent, doch ein Charakter.]
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Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven's blue o'er us The rosy cloudlets sweep.
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Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.
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All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.
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The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African for every man is but another negro king, and would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has bedaubed him.
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Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.
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