Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will … - Heinrich Heine

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Once you realize you're a spiritual being, you see life so differently. You respect things. You're more responsible to yourself and others.

Heinrich Heine

Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.

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In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

Dark, Foolish, Guide, Men, Night

Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him.

Beautiful, Art, Support, Charge, Carved, Nothing

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.

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The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.

Dog, People, Knows, Like, Dogs

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Beings, Book, Books, Burn, Evil, Reading