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Heinrich Heine Quotes about Literature

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When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

Heinrich Heine
Hero, Literature, Clown

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

Heinrich Heine
Literature, Ass, Public Speaking

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

Heinrich Heine
Literature, Ask Me, Asks

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

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

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
Believe, Atheism, Literature

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Heinrich Heine
Silence, Literature, Eloquence
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (Maxims and Moral Sentences, No. 262), 1922.

Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

Heinrich Heine
Faith, Men, Literature
"The Sword and the Flame".

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

Heinrich Heine
Fiction, Genius, Literature

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

Heinrich Heine
Battle, Half, Literature

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Heinrich Heine
Evil, Fundamentals, Literature
"The Pillars of Economic Understanding: Factors and Markets". Book by Charles R. McCann, 2000.

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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