There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.


Heinrich Mann

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HEINRICH HEINE
God will forgive me; that's his business
HEINRICH HEINE
Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will h...
HEINRICH HEINE
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is g...
HEINRICH HEINE
Die reinste Lustigkeit ist die Liebe, Gott ist die Liebe, Gott ist die reinste Lustigkeit.
HEINRICH HEINE
Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
HEINRICH HEINE
Woman is at once apple and serpent
HEINRICH HEINE
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into batt...
HEINRICH HEINE
Atheism is the last word of theism
HEINRICH HEINE
Matrimony, - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented
HEINRICH HEINE
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the ...
HEINRICH HEINE
Snip! Snap! Snip! They go so fast. / That both his thumbs are off at last.
HEINRICH HOFFMAN
When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best.
MARTIN HEINRICH
Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
HEINRICH HEINE
Anything to me is sweeter / Than to see Shock-headed Peter.
HEINRICH HOFFMAN
No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been p...
HEINRICH BOLL
The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I t...
HEINRICH HEINE
You don't need to drive,
HEINRICH HIMMLER
Once we have the power we will never give it up!
HEINRICH HIMMLER
Admittedly, man is small and insignificant in nature's scheme; but he is part of it. And are we to t...
HEINRICH HARRER
Let us grant courage and the love of pure adventure their own justification, even if we cannot produ...
HEINRICH HARRER
Yes, we had made and excursion into another world and we had come back, but we had brought the joy o...
HEINRICH HARRER
Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with ...
HEINRICH BOLL
Atheism is the last word of theism.
HEINRICH HEINE
I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hunga...
HEINRICH HIMMLER
In 1974/75, I spent a sabbatical year with Professor Vince Jaccarino and Dr. Alan King at the Univer...
HEINRICH ROHRER
He pulled up a little thicker in the wind than I wanted. I don't want to start him until he is 100 p...
GILLIAN HEINRICH
It is really 50-50 at the moment.
GILLIAN HEINRICH
The horse is going really well. I'll have a look at the field and the weights for Eagle Farm before ...
GILLIAN HEINRICH
I am a clown...and I collect moments.
HEINRICH BöLL
If Continental tea is like a faded yellow telegraph form, in these islands to the west of Ostend it ...
HEINRICH BöLL
The more the history of the church comes to light, the darker it gets.
HEINRICH WIESNER
It takes a lot of practice to be spontaneous.
HEINRICH NUSSE
There was in our father Adam before his fall the very image and likeness of God.
HEINRICH BULLINGER
This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting out of God's image in us.
HEINRICH BULLINGER
With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters,
He botches up the loop-holes in the structure o...
HEINRICH HEINE
I cattolici mi rendono nervoso perché sono sleali. E i protestanti? domandò ridendo, quelli mi fan...
HEINRICH BöLL