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We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hangedHeinrich Heine
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With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters, He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.Heinrich Heine
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Where they burn books, at the end they also burn peopleHeinrich Heine
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Lieb Liebchen, leg ‘s Händchen aufs Herze mein; -Ach, hörst du, wie’s pochet im Kämmerlein, Da hauset ein Zimmermann schlimm und arg, Der zimmert mir einen Totensarg.Es hämmert und klopfet bei Tag und bei Nacht;Es hat mich schon längst um den Schlaf gebracht. Ach! sputet Euch, Meister Zimmermann, Damit ich balde schlafen kann.Heinrich Heine
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Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.Heinrich Heine
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First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.Heinrich Heine
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A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.Heinrich Heine
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Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.Heinrich Heine
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The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.Heinrich Heine
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And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.Heinrich Heine
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Where words leave off, music begins.Heinrich Heine
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One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.Heinrich Heine
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Iron helmets will not save/ Even heroes from the grave/ Good man's blood will drain away/ While the wickid win the day.Heinrich Heine
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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.Heinrich Heine
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Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.Heinrich Heine
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He only profits from praise who values criticism.Heinrich Heine
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He always maintained that we fear something because we recognize it as fearsome through rational inferences, and that only the reason had any power; the heart had none. While I ate well and drank well, he kept demonstrating to me the advantages of reason.. In striving after the positive, the poor man had argued away all life's splendour, all the sunbeams, all the faith and all the flowers, leaving nothing but the cold, positive grave.Heinrich Heine
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The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become madHeinrich Heine
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I once saw many flowers blooming Upon my way, in indolence I scorned to pick them in my going And passed in proud indifference. Now, when my grave is dug, they taunt me; Now, when I'm sick to death in pain, In mocking torment still they haunt me, Those fragrant blooms of my disdain.Heinrich Heine
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When words leave off music begins.Heinrich Heine
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God will forgive me. That's his business.Heinrich Heine
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The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.Heinrich Heine
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If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure then believe.Heinrich Heine
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We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.Heinrich Heine
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God will forgive me that is His business.Heinrich Heine
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God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee O God!Heinrich Heine
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I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth and what we can enjoy in this life I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!Heinrich Heine
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When the heroes go off the stage the clowns come on.Heinrich Heine
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Matrimony - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.Heinrich Heine
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Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon between spirit and matter.Heinrich Heine
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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?Heinrich Heine
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It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.Heinrich Heine
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God will pardon me. It's his business.Heinrich Heine
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Woman is at once apple and serpent.Heinrich Heine
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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.Heinrich Heine
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Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.Heinrich Heine
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Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.Heinrich Heine
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When words leave off, music begins.Heinrich Heine
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The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.Heinrich Heine
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Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.Heinrich Heine
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I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.Heinrich Heine
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Of course God will forgive me that's His job.Heinrich Heine
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Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.Heinrich Heine
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Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.Heinrich Heine
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God will forgive me. It's his job.Heinrich Heine
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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.Heinrich Heine
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Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.Heinrich Heine