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Heinrich Heine

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Where words leave off, music begins.


— Heinrich Heine


#power-of-music #music

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.


— Heinrich Heine


#censorship #censorship

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged


— Heinrich Heine


#philosophy #revenge #wisdom #forgiveness

Das war ein Vorspiel nur; dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen." (Almansor)


— Heinrich Heine


#books #bücherverbrennung #freedom-of-thought #human-rights #meinungsfreiheit

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.


— Heinrich Heine


#music #soldiers #war #marriage

And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.


— Heinrich Heine


#blonde #hair #beauty

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.


— Heinrich Heine


#cannot #feed #hungry #statistics #you

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.


— Heinrich Heine


#beings #books #burn #end #human

When words leave off, music begins.


— Heinrich Heine


#begins #leave #off #words

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.


— Heinrich Heine


#best #better #born #course #death






About Heinrich Heine

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Did you know about Heinrich Heine?

In 1844 Heine wrote series of musical feuilletons over several different music seasons discussing the music of the day. The Prussian government angry at the publication of Vorwärts put pressure on France to deal with its authors and in January 1845 Marx was deported to Belgium. In 1815 on Napoleon's downfall it became part of Prussia.

Heine spent the last 25 years of his life as an expatriate in Paris. He was also a journalist essayist and literary critic.

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