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E. T. A. Hoffmann Quotes

Type: Critic Quotes Date of Birth: January 24, 1776 Date of Death: June 25, 1822 Find on Amazon: E. T. A. Hoffmann Related Authors: William Hazlitt Charles Lamb Leslie Fiedler Paul Weyrich Roger Ebert Irving Babbitt Georg Brandes Walter Benjamin

Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand. E. T. A. Hoffmann 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. E. T. A. Hoffmann Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully? E. T. A. Hoffmann It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass. 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. E. T. A. Hoffmann 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. E. T. A. Hoffmann Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you. E. T. A. Hoffmann 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. E. T. A. Hoffmann

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