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" "Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people
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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He always maintained that we fear something because we recognize it as fearsome through rational inferences, and that only the reason had any power; the heart had none. While I ate well and drank well, he kept demonstrating to me the advantages of reason... In striving after the positive, the poor man had argued away all life's splendour, all the sunbeams, all the faith and all the flowers, leaving nothing but the cold, positive grave.
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XXIII.
Warum sind denn die Rosen so blaß,
O sprich, mein Lieb, warum?
Warum sind denn im grünen Gras
Die blauen Veilchen so stumm?
Warum singt denn mit so kläglichem Laut
Die Lerche in der Luft?
Warum steigt denn aus dem Balsamkraut
Hervor ein Leichenduft?
Warum scheint denn die Sonn’ auf die Au’
So kalt und verdrießlich herab?
Warum ist denn die Erde so grau
Und öde wie ein Grab?
Warum bin ich selbst so krank und so trüb’,
Mein liebes Liebchen, sprich?
O sprich, mein herzallerliebstes Lieb,
Warum verließest du mich?