E. T. A. Hoffmann Quotes
It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
Hoffmann, E. T. A. The Serapion Brethren. Translated by Alexander Ewing, vol. 1, George Bell and Sons, 1886, p. 201.
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffmann appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Coppélia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote, while Schumann's Kreisleriana is based on Hoffmann's character Johannes Kreisler. See also Schumann's Fantasiestücke, Op. 12.
