Quotes by : Gérard de Nerval

The last madness I’ll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics....

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....

I am the other.

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....

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....