Books Quote by Gérard de Nerval

“What is madness...to go on platonically loving a woman who will never love you.”

— Gérard 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…

— Gérard de Nerval

“My brow still burns from the kiss of the queen; I have dreamed in the grotto where the siren swims . . .”

— Gérard de Nerval

“Don’t wait up for me tonight, for the night will be black and white.”

— Gérard 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…

— Gérard 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…

— Gerard 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…

— Gerard 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,…

— Gerard De Nerval

God is dead!

— Gerard 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.”

— Gérard 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…

— Gerard 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…

— Gérard de Nerval