There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are likethin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction. — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share
Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully? — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share
The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our bosoms! No… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share
Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more inconstant than opinion,… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share
Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share
Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last. — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share
As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises it to… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share
It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share
Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand. — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share
“If there is a dark and hostile power which traitorously fixes a thread in our hearts in order that, laying hold of it and… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share
Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share
The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be fixed firmly… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share
It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass. — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share
