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• We should forgive our enemies, but only after they have been hanged first. -- Heinrich Heine
• Of course he [God] will forgive me; that's his business.
  [Bien sur, il me pardonnera; c'est son metier.] -- Heinrich Heine, 1856....
• Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. -- Heinrich Heine
• Oh, what lies there are in kisses. Heinrich Heine
• Whenever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people. -- Heinrich Heine
• Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light.
  -- Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) -- Essays in Criticism, Heinrich Heine...
• If birth is a miracle, is not death also a miracle?
• It's been lovely, but I have to scream now.