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.
HEINRICH HEINE, "Lutetia; or, Paris," Augsberg Gazette, 1842
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
HEINRICH HEINE, Book of Songs
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