Christian Johann Heinrich Heine, 1797 - 1856
Portrait by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1831)
Born: 13 December 1797, Düsseldorf, Rhineland
Died: 17 February 1856, Paris, France
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- All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country,... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it. permalink
Heinrich Heine - And the dancing has begun now, and the dancers whirl round gaily in the waltz's giddy mazes, and the ground beneath them trembles. permalink
Heinrich Heine - Ask me not what I have, but what I am. permalink
Heinrich Heine - Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea. permalink
Heinrich Heine - History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany, Vol. I (1834) - Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. permalink
Heinrich Heine - Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. permalink
Heinrich Heine - Every woman is the gift of a world to me. permalink
Heinrich Heine - Ideas: The Book Le Grand (1826) - Excessive wealth is perhaps harder to endure than poverty. permalink
Heinrich Heine - Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. permalink
Heinrich Heine - Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction. permalink
Heinrich Heine - He only profits from praise who values criticism. permalink
Heinrich Heine - He who will establish himself on a certain height must yield according to circumstances, like the weather-cock on a church-spire, which, though it be made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it remained obstinately immovable, and did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. permalink
Heinrich Heine - "The Emancipation" - English Fragments (1828) - Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. permalink
Heinrich Heine - I bequeath all my property to my wife on the express condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death. permalink
Heinrich Heine - Testamentary Will of Heinrich Heine (1856) - I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom. permalink
Heinrich Heine
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