Golden Pot Quotes

“Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?”
― E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Golden Pot and Other Tales

“I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you with such magical mishaps.”
― E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Golden Pot and Other Tales

“It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth.”
― E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Golden Pot and Other Tales