Heinrich Heine Quotes

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Heinrich Heine

Profession : Poet

Birth : December 13, 1797

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

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Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

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I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

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Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

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When words leave off, music begins.

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

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Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

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When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

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

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Woman is at once apple and serpent.

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

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Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

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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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Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

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

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Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

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Atheism is the last word of theism.

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

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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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