First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- … - Heinrich Heine

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Catch-and-release, that's like running down pedestrians in your car and then, when they get up and limp away, saying -- 'Off you go! That's fine. I just wanted to see if I could hit you. '

Heinrich Heine

First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

Bearing, Crush, Firsts, Spirit, Thought

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In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

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Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him.

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There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.

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The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.

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

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. . . It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.

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