It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
E. T. A. HoffmannIt is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.
E. T. A. HoffmannThere are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are likethin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.
E. T. A. Hoffmann