“Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.”

—  Heinrich Heine

As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 60

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German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic 1797–1856

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