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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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The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge…
— Angela Carter
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In Istanbul I met a man who said he knew beyond a doubt that God was a cat. I asked why he…
— Lowell Thomas
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We've proved a lot of people wrong so far but the job is not finished yet and if we come home from…
— Steven Gerrard
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To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and…
— Orhan Pamuk
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Holy Istanbul! Your name is the most enchanting one of all names which enchants me.
— Pierre Loti
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Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee…
— Mary Schmich
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I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected…
— Jane Siberry
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I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul.
— Roger Waters
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It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments…
— Orhan Pamuk
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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…
— Gerard De Nerval
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On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the…
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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Beginning in 1939, there were events well to the east of Istanbul that seems to have started a progressive sequence to the…
— Thomas Parsons
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