The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the I, under another form, continues the task of existence. — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
“What is madness...to go on platonically loving a woman who will never love you.” — Gérard de Nerval Copy Share
“How lovely she was in her raiments of silk and levantine purple; the fabric provocatively set off the sheen of her white shoulders, which… — Gérard de Nerval Copy Share
“My brow still burns from the kiss of the queen; I have dreamed in the grotto where the siren swims . . .” — Gérard de Nerval Copy Share
“Illusions fall away one after another like the husks of a fruit, and that fruit is experience. It is bitter to the taste, but… — Gérard de Nerval Copy Share
“Sleep occupies a third of our life. It is the consolation to the woes of our days or the woe of their pleasures; but… — Gerard de Nerval Copy Share
The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally by a… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share
Man, do you think yours is the only soul? Look around you. Everything that you see quivers with being. Though your thoughts are free,… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share
“The last madness I’ll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure me.” — Gérard de Nerval Copy Share
“It is impossible for a Parisian to resist the desire to flick through the old volumes laid out by a bookseller. [ Il est… — Gérard de Nerval Copy Share
İstanbul is a magical seal which unites Europe and Asia since the ancient times. Without a doubt, Istanbul is certainly the most beautiful place… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share
“Everything is alive, everything is in motion, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays that emanate from me or from others flow directly through the infinite… — Gérard de Nerval Copy Share
How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays,… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share
I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind loves me… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share
