German - Poet | December 13, 1797 - February 17, 1856
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
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.
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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
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God will forgive me; that's his business.
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Woman is at once apple and serpent.
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Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
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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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When words leave off, music begins.
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Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
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He only profits from praise who values criticism.
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In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
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I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
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