German 🇩🇪 APHORISMS

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Christian Johann Heinrich Heine 🇩🇪 13 December 1797 → 17 February 1856

• German poet

“Der Gedanke geht der That voraus, wie das Licht dem Donner.”
“Thought precedes action as lightning precedes thunder.”
 － Heinrich Heine꞉ 𝙕𝙪𝙧 𝙂𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙩𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙍𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙋𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙤𝙥𝙝𝙞𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝘿𝙚𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙 (“𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘎𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺”), 1834