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HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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90 I^eine*<br />

THE FUTURE.<br />

The future smells strongly of Russia<br />

leather and of blood, of godlessness,<br />

and of a vast deal of flogging. I recommend<br />

our descendants to come into the<br />

world with very thick skins upon their<br />

backs.<br />

THE ARTIST AND THE WORLD.<br />

The Artist is the fabled child of popular<br />

legend, whose tears are all pearls.<br />

Alas! his wicked step-mother, the<br />

World, beats the poor child the more unmercifully<br />

in order that he may weep<br />

plenty of pearls.<br />

SPINOZA.<br />

In reading Spinoza's works we become<br />

conscious of a feeling such as<br />

pervades us at the sight of great Nature<br />

herself in her most life-like state of repose.<br />

We behold a forest of heavenreaching<br />

thoughts whose blossoming topmost<br />

boughs are tossing like waves of<br />

the sea, while their immovable stems are<br />

rooted in the eternal earth.

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