HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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LOVE ANALYZED AND DESCRIBED.
Love ! it is the highest and most victorious
of aU the passions. But its
world-compelling power lies in its
boundless generosity, in its almost
superhuman disinterestedness, in its
self-sacrificing contempt for life. For
love there is no yesterday, and she
thinks not of any morrow; she covets
only the present day, but she desires it
wholly, unstinted, without shadow of
trouble ; she will not save of her present
joy for any future, and she disdains the
warmed-up leavings of the past. " Before
me night, behind me night." She
is a wandering flame between two darknesses.
Whence comes she ? — From
tiniest, almost inconceivable sparks.
What is her end ?—She is extinguished
as incomprehensibly, and leaves no
trace. The more violently she burns,
the more quickly she goeth out; yet
that hinders not that she wholly giveth
herself up to her blazing passion, as if
its fire would last forever.
THIERS AND GERMAN
PHILOSOPHY.
Monsieur Thiers understands everything;.
It is a pity he has not made a
study of German philosophy; this also
he would have been able to elucidate.