Heinrich Heine Quotes About Language
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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
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The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.
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The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather- beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins.
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The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations.
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