Genius: 1. to believe your ...

Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3. the fruit of labour and thought. 4. soul. 5. the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. 6. something one can become.
 Heinrich Heine

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Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.
 Heinrich Heine
Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.
 Heinrich Heine
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.
 Heinrich Heine
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling...
 Heinrich Heine
The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun.
 Heinrich Heine