E. T. A. Hoffmann Quotes

• 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 tradition, which is often very uncertain.

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• 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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• 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 the clear blue sky.

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• Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.

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• Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won’t help you.

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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 we try. The circler circles in these circles.

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E. T. A. Hoffmann (8)

Birth:	24th January, 1776
Death:	25th June, 1822
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Author, Critic

About

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's famous opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffman appears as the hero. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which the famous ballet The Nutcracker is based.

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