Quotes by : 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....

Man, free thinker!Do you imagine you alone think in this world where life is blazing forth in all things?You....

Even as it clouds our corporeal vision, intoxication clarifies our spiritual vision. The mind, set free....

Childhood memories surge back more vividly midway through life – like some palimpsest whose original....

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

Everything is alive, everything is in motion, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays that emanate....

Illusions fall away one after another like the husks of a fruit, and that fruit is experience. It is....

It is impossible for a Parisian to resist the desire to flick through the old volumes laid out by a books....

I have seen so many lands vanish in my wake, torn down like stage sets. What survives of them? An image....

One third of our life is spent in sleep. It is consolation for the troubles of our waking hours or atonement....