Heinrich Heine Quotes
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The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
[Action]
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The men of the past had convictions, while we modems have only opinions.
[Opinion]
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The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.
[Education]
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The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
[Marriage]
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There are more fools in the world than there are people.
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There is something marvelous in music. I might almost say it is, in itself, a marvel. Its position is somewhere between the region of thought and that of phenomena; a glimmering medium between mind and matter, related to both and yet differing from either. Spiritual, and yet requiring rhythm; material, and yet independent of space.
[Music]
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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
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We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.
[Fault]
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Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
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When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
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When words leave off, music begins.
[Applause]
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Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
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Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
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Woman is at once apple and serpent.
[Women]
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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
[Science]
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