In such a dreamy mood one may find one may well wound one's… - E. T. A. Hoffmann

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In such a dreamy mood one may find one may well wound one's feet against sharp stones, forget to doff one's hat to distinguished persons, bid one's friends good morning in the middle of the night, and dash one's head against the first front door one comes to, because one had forgot to open it; in short, the spirit wears one's body like an ill-fitting garment that is everywhere too wide, too long, too uncomfortable.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

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Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822), better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann, was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. He is the subject and hero of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, a fictionalized account.

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Native Name: Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

Alternative Names: Ernst Theodor Wilhelm. Hoffman • Ernst Theodor Amedeus Hoffmann • Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman • E.T.A. Hoffmann • Ernst Theodor Hoffmann • Amadeus Hoffman • Amadeus Hoffmann • E. T. Hoffmann • ernst theodor amadeus hoffmann • e. th. a. hoffmann • Ernst Theodore Wilhelm Hoffmann • Ernst T. A. Hoffmann • Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann

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I wished I could read in their shrivelled faces and watery eyes, I wished I could hear in the bad French which came half through their pinched lips and half through their pointed noses, how the old ladies had got at least on to good terms with the uncanny beings which haunted the castle.

Perchance, dear reader, you will then believe that nothing is stranger and madder than actual life, and that this is all that the poet can conceive, as it were in the dull reflection of a dimly polished mirror.

So true it is, that even the shortest step out of the immediate circle of one's best friends, is equal, in effect, to the remotest separation.

In such a dreamy mood one may find one may well wound one's feet against sharp stones, forget to doff one's hat to distinguished persons, bid one's f… - E. T. A. Hoffmann

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