“The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be fixed firmly in every-day life, so that everybody may be able to climb up it along with us. When people then find that they have got climbed up higher and higher into a marvelous, magical world, they will feel that that realm, too, belongs to their ordinary, every-day life, and is, merely, the wonderful and most glorious part thereof.”
E.T.A.W. Hoffmann
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“It is a great mistake to suppose that clever, imaginative children … should content themselves with the empty nonsense which is so often set before them under the name of Children’s Tales. They want something much better; and it is surprising how much they see and appreciate which escapes a good, honest, well- informed papa.”
E.T.A.W. Hoffmann
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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….”
E.T.A.W. Hoffmann
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“Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.”
E.T.A.W. Hoffmann
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“Is it the breath, merely, of the performer on a wind- instrument, or the skillful, supple fingers of the performer on a stringed instrument which evoke those tones which lay upon us a spell of such power, and awaken that inexpressible feeling, akin to nothing else on earth–the sense of a distant spirit world, and of our own higher life in it? Is it not, rather, the mind, the soul, the heart, which merely employ those bodily organs to give forth into our external life what we feel in our inner depths?”
E.T.A.W. Hoffmann
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“Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?”
E.T.A.W. Hoffmann
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