E T A Hoffmann Quotes

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• 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…
• Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul here and there…
• It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth.
• Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.
• It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
• It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
• Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very…
• Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your…
• I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you…
• How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to…
• Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
• Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles…
• Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

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