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About Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine was a 18th-century German poet, writer, and literary critic. Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder by composers such as Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Happiness — Thoughts on finding joy, contentment, and fulfilment

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“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged”
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“Where words leave off, music begins.”
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“With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters,He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.”
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“The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.”
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“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people”
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“Lieb Liebchen, leg s Hndchen aufs Herze mein; -Ach, hrst du, wies pochet im Kmmerlein,Da hauset ein Zimmermann schlimm und arg,Der zimmert mir einen Totensarg.Es hmmert und klopfet bei Tag und bei ...”
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