All Heinrich Heine Quotes
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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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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Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
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In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
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Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
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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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Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
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Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
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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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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
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