Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.
It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass. - E. T. A. Hoffmann
It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
- 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
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.
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 circ… - 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 circ…
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 usual activitie… - E. T. A. Hoffmann
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 usual activitie…
Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you. - E. T. A. Hoffmann
Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
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
Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more inconstant than opinion, …
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 sk… - 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 sk…
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
It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
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 with such mag… - E. T. A. Hoffmann
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 with such mag…
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