Gerard De Nerval Quotes

• The life of the poet is the life of everyone.

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• There is only one vice of which no one boasts-ingratitude.

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• Philosophy! In whose light, like that in Milton’s hell, only serves to make the shadows visible.

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• Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

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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 separate us from the invisible world.

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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 or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

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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 to determine the exact instant when the “I,” under another form, continues the task of existence.

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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 in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

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  Topics in Dream, Life

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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 everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

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• God is dead!

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Gerard De Nerval (10)

Birth:	22nd May, 1808
Death:	26th January, 1855
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Poet, Translator, Writer

About

Gerard De Nerval was born in Paris, France. He was the nom-de-plume of the French poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer, and translator Gérard Labrunie. A major figure of French romanticism who worked in many genres, he is best known for his poems and novellas, especially the collection Les Filles du feu, which includes the novella Sylvie and the poem El Desdichado. He wrote other books include: Voyage to the Orient, The Salt Smugglers, Aurelia, and Les Illuminés(collection of narratives or essays).

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