With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he … - Heinrich Heine

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With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.

Heinrich Heine

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About Heinrich Heine

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was a journalist, an essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. Jewish by birth, he converted to Lutheran Christianity as an adult.

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Alternative Names: Christian Johann Heinrich Heine • Christian Heine • Christian Johann Heinrich "Harry" Heine • Heine

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What! Think you that my flashes show me Only in lightnings to excel? Believe me, friends, you do not know me, For I can thunder quite as well.

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Die Menschen in jener alten Zeit hatten Überzeugungen, wir Neueren haben nur Meinungen, und es gehört etwas mehr als eine bloße Meinung dazu, um so einen gotischen Dom aufzurichten.

With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe. - Heinrich Heine

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