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Gerard De Nerval has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything!
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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good…
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I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind…
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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…
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Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or…
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İstanbul is a magical seal which unites Europe and Asia since the ancient times. Without a doubt, Istanbul is certainly the most…
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Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which…
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When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is…
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How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the…
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Man, do you think yours is the only soul? Look around you. Everything that you see quivers with being. Though your thoughts…
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Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing…
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Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.
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Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child;…
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By being with yourself, the 'I am', by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them…
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Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite…
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Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted…
— Martin Luther
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Americans love their captivity. There's no responsibility. When you're a captive, you don't have to make a decision about anything, though you…
— Eustace Mullins
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The resurrection power of Jesus broke Satan's captive power. When He led the Old Testament saints from paradise to heaven, He led…
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You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
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