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Tales of Hoffmann QUOTES

1 " It was obvious from their expressions that they believed the wellbeing of R.’s inhabitants was endangered by my youth. The visit was very enjoyable, but the horror of the previous night still clung to me. "

― E.T.A. Hoffmann , Tales of Hoffmann

2 " Poor, ill-advised Roderich! What evil power did you conjure up to poison in its first youth the race you thought to have planted for eternity? "

― E.T.A. Hoffmann , Tales of Hoffmann

3 " 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. "

― E.T.A. Hoffmann , Tales of Hoffmann