Gerard De Nerval Quotes

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• It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror!…
• Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything!
• The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured…
• I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind loves me for…
• 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…
• Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or any other animal…
• Ä°stanbul is a magical seal which unites Europe and Asia since the ancient times. Without a doubt, Istanbul is certainly the most beautiful place of…
• Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from…
• When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought…
• How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating…
• Man, do you think yours is the only soul? Look around you. Everything that you see quivers with being. Though your thoughts are free, one…
• Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
• I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life begins, freed from the conditions of…
• l'imagination m'apportait des délices infinies. En recouvrant ce que les hommes appellent la raison, faudra-t-il regretter de les avoir perdues...? My imagination gave me infinite…
• God is dead!
• Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature.

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