Heinrich Heine Quotes About Literature
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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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The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
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The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.
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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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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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He only profits from praise who values criticism.
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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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Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
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Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.
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When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
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Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
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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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In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
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Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.
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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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Ask me not what I have, but what I am.
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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
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