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• Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.

  Heinrich Heine

  Miracle, Strange, Music Is

  Letters on the French Stage, 1837.

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• In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.

  Heinrich Heine

  Heart, Bird, Singing

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• God will pardon me. It is His trade.

  Heinrich Heine

  Pardon Me, Last Words, Gods Will

  Quoted in Alfred Meissner, Heinrich Heine (1856)

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• He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dog, Monsters, Treasure

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• Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

  Heinrich Heine

  Book, Reading, People

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• Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

  Heinrich Heine

  Turtles, Soup, Reform

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• A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

  Heinrich Heine

  Praying, Lord, Britain

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.103

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• Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—Love! Immortality!

  Heinrich Heine

  Death, Summer, Blessed

  Heinrich Heine (1891). “The Works of Heinrich Heine”

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Boredom, Insulting, England

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• The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun.

  Heinrich Heine

  Light, Air, Mountain

  Henry Baruch Sachs, Heinrich Heine (1916). “Heine in America”

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• Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.

  Heinrich Heine

  Moving, Torches, Worms

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.96

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• Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him.

  Heinrich Heine

  Beautiful, Art, Support

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.125

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• She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.

  Heinrich Heine

  Sarcastic, Venus De Milo, Yellow

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• Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

  Heinrich Heine

  Lying, Kissing

  "Poems of Heinrich Heine: Three Hundred and Twenty-five Poems". Book by Louis Untermeyer, p. 134, 1917.

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• I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you had left me; I awoke and I went on weeping long and bitterly. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you were still kind to me; I awoke, and still the flow of my tears streams on.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dream, Long, Tears

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• The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.

  Heinrich Heine

  Passion, People, Insulting

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• The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.

  Heinrich Heine

  Swans, Water, Singing

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

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• But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. Lucky dogs! they already knew in their cradles the nouns ending in im. I on the contrary had to learn it by heart, in the sweat of my brow.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dog, Latin, Heart

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.183

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• I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!

  Heinrich Heine

  Happiness, Kitchen, Earth

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• Every woman is the gift of a world to me.

  Heinrich Heine

  World

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.172

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• The lotus flower is troubled
  At the sun's resplendent light;
  With sunken head and sadly
  She dreamily waits for the night.

  Heinrich Heine

  Flower, Night, Light

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• Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.

  Heinrich Heine

  Art, Exercise, Order

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

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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.

  Heinrich Heine

  Literature, Morgues, Related

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.123

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• Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still, to be ensnared.

  Heinrich Heine

  Sweet, Lying, Kissing

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• He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.

  Heinrich Heine

  Lying, Fighting, Cutting

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “Pictures of Travel”, p.466

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