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> [“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/where-they-burn-books-at-the-end-they-also-burn-people/)

[Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/)

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> [That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/that-was-only-the-beginning-where-one-burns-books-one-will-finally/)

[Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/)

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> [Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/wherever-they-burn-books-they-will-also-in-the-end-burn-human-beings/)

[Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/)

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## Other authors on Burn

## More by Heinrich Heine

> [Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/great-genius-takes-shape-by-contact-with-another-great-genius-but/)

[Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/)

> [Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/lo-sleep-is-good-better-is-death-in-sooth-the-best-of-all-were-never/)

[Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/)

> [Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/ordinarily-he-was-insane-but-he-had-lucid-moments-when-he-was-merely/)

[Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/)

> [Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/human-misery-is-too-great-for-men-to-do-without-faith/)

[Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/)

> [Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/every-age-has-its-problem-by-solving-which-humanity-is-helped-forward/)

[Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/)

> [The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/the-beauteous-dragonfly-s-dancing-by-the-waves-of-the-rivulet/)

[Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/)

> [I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier days. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/i-am-no-longer-a-divine-biped-i-am-no-longer-the-freest-german-after/)

[Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/)

> [First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/first-i-thought-almost-despairing-this-must-crush-my-spirit-now-yet-i/)

[Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/)

> [Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/nothing-is-more-futile-than-theorizing-about-music-no-doubt-there-are/)

[Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/)

> [A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/a-lonely-fir-tree-is-standing-on-a-northern-barren-height-it-sleeps/)

[Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/)

> [Thought is invisible nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/thought-is-invisible-nature/)

[Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/)

> [“Still is the night, it quiets the streets down, In that window my love would appear; She's long since gone away from this town,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/still-is-the-night-it-quiets-the-streets-down-in-that-window-my-love/)

[Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/)

> [The dragon-fly is dancing,— Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/the-dragon-fly-is-dancing-is-on-the-water-glancing-she-flits-about/)

[Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/)

> [There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/there-is-one-thing-on-earth-more-terrible-than-english-music-and-that/)

[Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/)

> [He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/he-is-noble-who-both-feels-and-acts-nobly/)

[Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/)

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