Heinrich Heine Short Quotes

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No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

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On wings of song, my dearest,
I will carry you off.

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Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

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Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.

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If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

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There are more fools in the world than there are people.

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Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.

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Wherever books will be burned, men also, in the end, are burned.

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One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.

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The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.

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The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood.

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In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

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Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

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Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

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Last words:
Of course he [God] will forgive me; that's his business.

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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

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Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

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The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

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Ordinarily he is insane, but he has lucid moments when he is only stupid.

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Life is a disease, the whole world a hospital, and Death is our physician.

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They loved each other beyond belief—
She was a strumpet, he was a thief.

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The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.

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The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl.

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I know not why I am so sad; I cannot get out of my head a fairy-tale of olden times.

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I will not mourn, although my heart is torn, Oh, love forever lost! I will not mourn.

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Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

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A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

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The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

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Do you hear the little bell tinkle? Kneel down. They are bringing the sacraments to a dying god.

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Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

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