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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-rard-de-nerval/the-first-moments-of-sleep-are-an-image-of-death-a-hazy-torpor-grips/)

[Gerard De Nerval](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-rard-de-nerval/)

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## More by Gérard de Nerval

> [“What is madness...to go on platonically loving a woman who will never love you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-rard-de-nerval/what-is-madness-to-go-on-platonically-loving-a-woman-who-will-never/)

[Gérard de Nerval](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-rard-de-nerval/)

> [“How lovely she was in her raiments of silk and levantine purple; the fabric provocatively set off the sheen of her white shoulders, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-rard-de-nerval/how-lovely-she-was-in-her-raiments-of-silk-and-levantine-purple-the/)

[Gérard de Nerval](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-rard-de-nerval/)

> [“My brow still burns from the kiss of the queen; I have dreamed in the grotto where the siren swims . . .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-rard-de-nerval/my-brow-still-burns-from-the-kiss-of-the-queen-i-have-dreamed-in-the/)

[Gérard de Nerval](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-rard-de-nerval/)

> [“Don’t wait up for me tonight, for the night will be black and white.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-rard-de-nerval/don-t-wait-up-for-me-tonight-for-the-night-will-be-black-and-white/)

[Gérard de Nerval](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-rard-de-nerval/)

> [“Illusions fall away one after another like the husks of a fruit, and that fruit is experience. It is bitter to the taste, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-rard-de-nerval/illusions-fall-away-one-after-another-like-the-husks-of-a-fruit-and/)

[Gérard de Nerval](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-rard-de-nerval/)

> [“Sleep occupies a third of our life. It is the consolation to the woes of our days or the woe of their pleasures; but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-rard-de-nerval/sleep-occupies-a-third-of-our-life-it-is-the-consolation-to-the-woes/)

[Gerard de Nerval](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-rard-de-nerval/)

> [The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally by a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-rard-de-nerval/the-intoxication-of-the-faro-drinker-only-shows-itself-at-first-by-an/)

[Gerard De Nerval](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-rard-de-nerval/)

> [Man, do you think yours is the only soul? Look around you. Everything that you see quivers with being. Though your thoughts are free,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-rard-de-nerval/man-do-you-think-yours-is-the-only-soul-look-around-you-everything/)

[Gerard De Nerval](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-rard-de-nerval/)

> [God is dead!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-rard-de-nerval/god-is-dead/)

[Gerard De Nerval](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-rard-de-nerval/)

> [“The last madness I’ll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-rard-de-nerval/the-last-madness-i-ll-probably-persist-in-is-to-believe-myself-a-poet/)

[Gérard de Nerval](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-rard-de-nerval/)

> [“It is impossible for a Parisian to resist the desire to flick through the old volumes laid out by a bookseller. \[ Il est…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-rard-de-nerval/it-is-impossible-for-a-parisian-to-resist-the-desire-to-flick-through/)

[Gérard de Nerval](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-rard-de-nerval/)

> [İstanbul is a magical seal which unites Europe and Asia since the ancient times. Without a doubt, Istanbul is certainly the most beautiful place…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-rard-de-nerval/i-stanbul-is-a-magical-seal-which-unites-europe-and-asia-since-the/)

[Gerard De Nerval](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-rard-de-nerval/)

> [“Everything is alive, everything is in motion, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays that emanate from me or from others flow directly through the infinite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-rard-de-nerval/everything-is-alive-everything-is-in-motion-everything-corresponds/)

[Gérard de Nerval](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-rard-de-nerval/)

> [How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-rard-de-nerval/how-have-i-been-able-to-live-so-long-outside-nature-without/)

[Gerard De Nerval](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-rard-de-nerval/)

> [I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind loves me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-rard-de-nerval/i-have-always-differentiated-between-two-types-of-friends-those-who/)

[Gerard De Nerval](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-rard-de-nerval/)

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