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Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

~Gerard De Nerval

Topics: Blossoming Every Flower Nature Soul

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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.

~Gerard De Nerval

Topics: Another Becomes Death Determine Exact Existence First Form Grips Image Impossible Instant Moments Our Sleep Task Thoughts Us

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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.

~Gerard De Nerval

Topics: Cannot Cast Evil Generations Good Ignorance Knowledge Learned Life Many Our Out Poured Spirits Them Tree Tree Of Life

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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.

~Gerard De Nerval

Topics: Able Been Dreams Gates Invisible Ivory Life Never Our Our Dreams Penetrate Second Separate Shudder Those Us Which Without World

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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.

~Gerard De Nerval

Topics: Between Consolation Cool Disorder Dream Life Mind Reflection Religious Return Seek Should Soul Thought

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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.

~Gerard De Nerval

Topics: Atom Been Between Dissolve Distinction Eternal Everything Evil Good Good And Evil Lies Nothing Powerless Rightly Said Save Single Terror Unimportant Universe

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God is dead!

~Gerard De Nerval

Topics: Dead God

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Novelist

Born: May 22nd, 1808

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