Heinrich Heine quotes

One should forgive ones enemies, but not before they are hanged. (Heinrich Heine)
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
Heinrich Heine
The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.
Heinrich Heine
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
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Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
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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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The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
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When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.
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When words leave off, music begins.
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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. (Heinrich Heine)
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
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Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
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I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.
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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
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Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals.
Heinrich Heine
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
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Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of Saint John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comp.
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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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If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses. (Heinrich Heine)
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.
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She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.
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Every woman is the gift of a world to me.
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Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.
Heinrich Heine