As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises it to his lips, and knocks out the ashes, reveals his personality, habits, passions, and even his thoughts. — 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 Image
Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully? — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand. — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“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 Image
