Gerard De Nerval Quotes

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gerard De Nerval

Nature, Soul, Flower

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 that we should seek consolation.
Gerard De Nerval

Life, Cool, Mind

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! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
Gerard De Nerval

Good, Evil, Nothing

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 exact instant when the 'I,' under another form, continues the task of existence.
Gerard De Nerval

Death, Sleep, Thoughts

God is dead!
Gerard De Nerval

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 the invisible world.
Gerard De Nerval

Life, Dreams, Able

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 into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
Gerard De Nerval

Life, Good, Knowledge

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Biography

Nationality: French

Born: May 22, 1808

Died: 1855

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