HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

92 J^eine*
SWEET
DELUSION.
Ah, what lies the kisses cover !
In their seeming, ah, what bliss !
Sweet 'tis to delude a lover.
Sweeter the delusion is !
Spite thy protestations, fairest,
I can tell what thou'lt receive !
I'll believe in all thou swearest.
And I'll swear all thou'lt believe.
WOMEN
WRITERS.
When they write, they have one eye
on the paper and the other on a man.
This rule applies to all authoresses, with
the exception of Countess Hahn-Hahn,
who only has one eye. We male authors
have also our prejudices. We write for
or against something, for or against an
idea, for or against a party; but women
always write for or against one particular
man, or, to express it more correctly,
on account of one particular man. We
men will sometimes lie outright; women,
like all passive creatures, seldom invent,
but can so distort a fact that they can
thereby injure us more surely than by a
downright lie. I verily believe my
friend Balzac was right when he once
said to me, in a sorrowful tone, " La
femme est un etre dangereux.""