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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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  Book, Reading, Blessing

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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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• Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.

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  Song, Sorrow, Littles

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• Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling...

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  Dream, Flower, Heart

  "Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos".

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• But a day must come when the fire of youth will be quenched in my veins, when winter will dwell in my heart, when his snow flakes will whiten my locks, and his mists will dim my eyes. Then my friends will lie in their lonely grave, and I alone will remain like a solitary stalk forgotten by the reaper.

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  Death, Lonely, Lying

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.173

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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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  Soldier, Funny Wedding, Battle

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• Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity.

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  Life, Dream, Sweet

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.171

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• It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

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  Beautiful, Vanity, Earth

  Heinrich Heine (1998). “Journey to Italy”, Marsilio Pub

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• From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

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  Boredom, Insulting, England

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• Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.

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  Book, Burned, Humans

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.

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  Pain, Choices, Teeth

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.175

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• Out of my own great woe I make my little songs.

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  Song, Littles, Woe

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• The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African; for every man is but another negro king, and would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has bedaubed him.

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  Kings, Fate, Men

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

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• Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.

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  Writing, Dark, Animal

  "Lutetia; or, Paris". The Augsberg Gazette, 12, VII, 1842.

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• Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.

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  Nature, Transition, Poet

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “Pictures of travel”, p.57

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• Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are only its conditions? The essence of music is revelation.

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  Law, Essence, Doubt

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• Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above.

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  Stars, Dwelling, Violet

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• I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

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  Battle, Half, Literature

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• Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course, if the spectator be without the last, the whole will present but a pitiful appearance, and in that case, the sun is merely so many miles in diameter, the trees are good for fuel, the flowers are classified by stamens, and the water is simply wet.

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  Nature, Flower, Mean

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.169

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• There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

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  Sarcastic, Earth, Painting

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• God will pardon me. It is His trade.

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  Pardon Me, Last Words, Gods Will

  Quoted in Alfred Meissner, Heinrich Heine (1856)

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• What lies lurk in kisses.

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  Lying, Kissing, Secret Love

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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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  Wise, Stupid, Men

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• In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

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  Wish, Politics, Politician

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

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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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  Fiction, Genius, Literature

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