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Heinrich Heine

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About Heinrich Heine

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder by composers such as Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert.

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Topics: Death Faith Family Forgiveness God Men
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

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Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.