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• Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

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  Marriage, Sea, Literature

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

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• Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

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  Thinking, Important, Age

  Heinrich Heine (1943). “Works of Prose”

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• The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been all along been left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would be treasures of spiritual knowledge.

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  Spiritual, Home, Years

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• Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.

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  Freedom, Religion, Our Time

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.468

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• It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

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  Believe, Atheism, Literature

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• Woman is at once apple and serpent.

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  Apples, Definitions, Serpent

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• I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

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  Heart, Break, Ifs

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• Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

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  Humanity, Progress, Age

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• No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

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  Marriage, Sea, Compass

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• Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

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  Nature, Flower, Smell

  Heinrich Heine, Charles Godfrey Leland (1995). “The Harz journey”, Marsilio Pub

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• The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.

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  Ocean, Sea, Sky

  Heinrich Heine (1859). “The Poems of Heine, complete: Translated in the original Metres: With a Sketch of Heine's Life. By Edgar Alfred Bowring”, p.89

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• While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

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  Self Esteem, Lying, Self Respect

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.87

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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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  Funny, Life, Education

  As quoted in "The Medical Record", No. 674, October 6, 1883.

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• I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is not lame, But really a handsome and charming man. A man in the prime of life is the devil, Obliging, a man of the world, and civil; A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate, He talks quite glibly of church and state.

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  Men, Skills, Church

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.210

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• Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3. the fruit of labour and thought. 4. soul. 5. the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. 6. something one can become.

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  Believe, Soul, Mind

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• In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

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  Time, Fighting, Ideas

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.90

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• The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather- beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins.

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  Thinking, Weather, Broken

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• The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

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  Men, Action, Instruments

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• Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

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  Sphinx, Periods, Riddle

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• God will pardon: That's His business.

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  Forgiveness, Pardon, Gods Will

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• In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.

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  Gone, Vain, Tales

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.321, Delphi Classics

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• Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

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  Men, Rocks, Poverty

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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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  Girl, Men, Common

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• God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

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  Forgiveness, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

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  Real, Taken, Tired

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