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The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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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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Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

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The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought. ↗

— 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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He only profits from praise who values criticism. ↗

— 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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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

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In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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