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> [“With the confidence and peace of mind native to true genius, I lay my life story before the world, so that the reader may learn how to educate himself to be a great tomcat, may recognize the full extent of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/with-the-confidence-and-peace-of-mind-native-to-true-genius-i-lay-my/)

[E.T.A. Hoffmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/)

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## More by E.T.A. Hoffmann

> [“Perchance, dear reader, you will then believe that nothing is stranger and madder than actual life, and that this is all that the poet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/perchance-dear-reader-you-will-then-believe-that-nothing-is-stranger/)

[E.T.A. Hoffmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/)

> [“So true it is, that even the shortest step out of the immediate circle of one's best friends, is equal, in effect, to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/so-true-it-is-that-even-the-shortest-step-out-of-the-immediate-circle/)

[E.T.A. Hoffmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/)

> [“With the confidence and peace of mind native to true genius, I lay my life story before the world, so that the reader may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/with-the-confidence-and-peace-of-mind-native-to-true-genius-i-lay-my/)

[E.T.A. Hoffmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/)

> [“We believed in another world, but we admitted the feebleness of our senses. Then came 'enlightenment,' and made everything so very clear and enlightened,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/we-believed-in-another-world-but-we-admitted-the-feebleness-of-our/)

[E.T.A. Hoffmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/)

> [“It may be, after all," said the Student Anselmus to himself, "that the superfine stomachic liqueur, which I took somewhat freely in Monsieur Conradi's,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/it-may-be-after-all-said-the-student-anselmus-to-himself-that-the/)

[E.T.A. Hoffmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/)

> [“But if, like a bold painter, you had first sketched in a few audacious strokes the outline of the picture you had in your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/but-if-like-a-bold-painter-you-had-first-sketched-in-a-few-audacious/)

[E.T.A. Hoffmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/)

> [“None but a poet can understand a poet; none but a romantic spirit transported with poetry and consecrated in the Holy of Holies an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/none-but-a-poet-can-understand-a-poet-none-but-a-romantic-spirit/)

[E.T.A. Hoffmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/)

> [“If there is a dark and hostile power, laying its treacherous toils within us, by which it holds us fast and draws us along…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/if-there-is-a-dark-and-hostile-power-laying-its-treacherous-toils/)

[E.T.A. Hoffmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/)

> [“She was not too tall, and of a voluptuous build, so that my eyes wandered amid many charms that hitherto had been strangers to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/she-was-not-too-tall-and-of-a-voluptuous-build-so-that-my-eyes/)

[E.T.A. Hoffmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/)

> [“Perhaps, too, you will then believe that nothing is more wonderful, nothing more fantastic than real life, and that all that a writer can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/perhaps-too-you-will-then-believe-that-nothing-is-more-wonderful/)

[E.T.A. Hoffmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/)

> [“There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must attribute the swift flight of fancy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-t-a-hoffmann-2/there-are-otherwise-quite-decent-people-who-are-so-dull-of-nature/)

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