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Heinrich Heine
Age: 58 †
Born: 1797
Born: December 13
Died: 1856
Died: February 17
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A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.
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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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While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
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Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.
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In action, the English have the advantage enjoyed by free men always entitled to free discussion: of having a ready judgment on every question. We Germans, on the other hand, are always thinking. We think so much that we never form a judgment.
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There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.
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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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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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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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