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“There is nothing more marvelous or madder than real life.”
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E. T. A. Hoffmann
Source : Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.117, Hay House, Inc
#Real Quotes
#Real Life Quotes
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“Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.”
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E. T. A. Hoffmann
#Dancing Quotes
#Devil Quotes
#Helping Quotes
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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
#Moving Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Circles Quotes
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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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E. T. A. Hoffmann
Source : E. T. A. Hoffmann (2015). “Old and New Church Music (Fantasy and Horror Classics)”, p.12, Read Books Ltd
#Real Quotes
#Simplicity Quotes
#Plies Quotes
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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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E. T. A. Hoffmann
#Sky Quotes
#Blue Quotes
#Humanity Quotes
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“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 magical mishaps.”
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E. T. A. Hoffmann
Source : E. T. A. Hoffmann (2000). “The Golden Pot and Other Tales”, p.67, Oxford University Press, USA
#Dream Quotes
#Glasses Quotes
#Doubt Quotes
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“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 activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?”
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E. T. A. Hoffmann
Source : E. T. A. Hoffmann (2000). “The Golden Pot and Other Tales”, p.20, Oxford University Press, USA
#Usual Quotes
#Foolish Quotes
#Week Quotes
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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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E. T. A. Hoffmann
#Men Quotes
#Earth Quotes
#Birth Quotes
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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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E. T. A. Hoffmann
#Creating Quotes
#Goes On Quotes
#Useless Quotes
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“It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.”
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E. T. A. Hoffmann
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“Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.”
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E. T. A. Hoffmann
#Boys Quotes
#Play Quotes
#Weapons Quotes
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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 so forth.”
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E. T. A. Hoffmann
Source : E. T. A. Hoffmann (2000). “The Golden Pot and Other Tales”, p.187, Oxford University Press, USA
#Morning Quotes
#Should Quotes
#Reviews Quotes
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“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 finds it more than it can bear? Shall there be no strong meat at table because there happen to be some guests there whose stomachs are weak, or who have spoiled their own digestions?”
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E. T. A. Hoffmann
Source : E. T. A. Hoffmann (2015). “The Mutual Interdependence of Things (Fantasy and Horror Classics)”, p.54, Read Books Ltd
#Strong Quotes
#Soul Quotes
#Use 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 lips, and knocks out the ashes, reveals his personality, habits, passions, and even his thoughts.”
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E. T. A. Hoffmann
#Passion Quotes
#Personality Quotes
#Smoking Quotes
