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Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#great #greatest #how #knows #like

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#battle #before #go #into #me

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#fails #great #hearts #people #revolution

In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#meaninglessness #nature-and-man #equality

Oh, what lies there are in kisses. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#lies #oh

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#better #born #course #death #lovely

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#fool #man #may #same #speak

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

— Heinrich Heine

#created #enough #evil #fact #fundamental

There are more fools in the world than there are people. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#more #people #than #world

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

— Heinrich Heine

#eloquence #necessary #nothing #saying #true