Heinrich Heine quotes - page 2

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. (Heinrich Heine)
At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it - but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?
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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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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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Don't send a poet to London.
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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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Out of my own great woe I make my little songs.
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Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
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Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.
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Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
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Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still, to be ensnared. (Heinrich Heine)
So we keep asking, over and over, Until a handful of earth Stops our mouths - But is that an answer?
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Where one burns books, one will soon burn people.
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Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.
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God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted the seconds to use it.
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This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end.
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Hence the one-sided errors-ces erreurs d'idée fixe-which we cannot escape when we stand too near to one or the other party; either deceives, yet does it unaware, and we confide most willingly in those who think as we do. But if we are by chance of such indifferent nature that we, without special predilection, keep in continual intercourse with all, then we are bewildered by the perfect self-confidence of either party, and our judgement is neutralised in the most depressing manner.
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Ask me not what I have, but what I am.
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The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.
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When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
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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. (Heinrich Heine)
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
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He only profits from praise who values criticism.
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I live, which is the main point.
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Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
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