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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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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
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My understanding – of course, I’m not a philosopher or a scientist – of an aspect of Goethe’s theory of color is…
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It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem…
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