"It is useless to contend with the irresistible……" — E T A Hoffmann
"It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction."
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E T A Hoffmann
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13 Quotes by E T A Hoffmann
E T A Hoffmann has 13 quotes on this site.
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As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds…
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Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some…
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It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and…
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Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.
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It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
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Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from…
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Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your…
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I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some…
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How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to…
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how…
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Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to…
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
— Lynda Barry
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops.…
— Samuel Beckett
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by…
— Joseph Addison
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To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular…
— Michael Bloomberg
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People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in…
— David Bohm
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.
— Richard Brautigan
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Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.
— Joyce Brothers
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That's gotta be the one remaining constant - jeans have gotta be tight, baby.
— Luke Bryan
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime…
— Albert Camus
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