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Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

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You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#care #down #flush #i #i care

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

— Heinrich Heine

#beings #books #burn #end #human

Atheism is the last word of theism. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

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In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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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

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