German - Poet | December 13, 1797 - February 17, 1856
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Heinrich Heine
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Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
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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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Ask me not what I have, but what I am.
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Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
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When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
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Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.
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Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
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Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
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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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I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
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