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Heinrich Heine

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He only profits from praise who values criticism.


— Heinrich Heine


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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.


— Heinrich Heine


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In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.


— Heinrich Heine


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


— Heinrich Heine


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It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.


— Heinrich Heine


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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?


— Heinrich Heine


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Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.


— Heinrich Heine


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


— Heinrich Heine


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Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.


— Heinrich Heine


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Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.


— Heinrich Heine


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About Heinrich Heine

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Did you know about Heinrich Heine?

In 1844 Heine wrote series of musical feuilletons over several different music seasons discussing the music of the day. The Prussian government angry at the publication of Vorwärts put pressure on France to deal with its authors and in January 1845 Marx was deported to Belgium. In 1815 on Napoleon's downfall it became part of Prussia.

Heine spent the last 25 years of his life as an expatriate in Paris. He was also a journalist essayist and literary critic.

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