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Thought is invisible nature.
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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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
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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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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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