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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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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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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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Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
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Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.
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The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations.
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Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.
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Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.
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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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I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.
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The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: It exists in spite of its ministers.
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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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Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.
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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
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Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.
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If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond lover.
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Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.
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God will pardon me. It is His trade.
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Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
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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.
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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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