Best Quotes by Heinrich Heine (Top 10)
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Where words leave off, music begins.
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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
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We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged
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In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.
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Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
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Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid
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Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
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There are more fools in the world than there are people.
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The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.
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Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies— but not before they have been hanged.
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More Heinrich Heine Quotes
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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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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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Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
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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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The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
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Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.
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Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
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Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
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He only profits from praise who values criticism.
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I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
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Woman is at once apple and serpent.
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Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
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It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
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God will forgive me. It's his job.
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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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Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
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The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
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Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
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The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it ... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
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Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
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The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.
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Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
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The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
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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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Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
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When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
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It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
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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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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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In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
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