Quotes by E. Hoffmann

• Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
• 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.
• 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.
• It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
• It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
• Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
• Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.
• 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.