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Quote by Heinrich Heine
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all. – Heinrich Heine

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Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. – Heinrich Heine

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The story of his youth was a series of bitternesses, as is the case with almost all distinguished men. Poverty sits by their cradle, and keeps watch over them till they have grown up; and this lean nurse remains their true companion through life. – Heinrich Heine

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