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Top 15 Gérard de Nerval Quotes (2025 Update)

Gérard de Nerval Quote: “Our dreams are a second life.”

1. “Our dreams are a second life.”

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Gérard de Nerval Quote: “The key to success is simple. Make people dream.”

2. “The key to success is simple. Make people dream.”

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Gérard de Nerval Quote: “The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.”

3. “The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.”

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Gérard de Nerval Quote: “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.”

4. “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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Gérard de Nerval Quote: “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.”

5. “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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Gérard de Nerval Quote: “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”

6. “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”

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Gérard de Nerval Quote: “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.”

7. “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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Gérard de Nerval Quote: “I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself and the others for themselves.”

8. “I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself and the others for themselves.”

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Gérard de Nerval Quote: “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.”

9. “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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Gérard de Nerval Quote: “Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything!”

10. “Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything!”

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Gérard de Nerval Quote: “The only refuge left to us was the poet’s ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.”

11. “The only refuge left to us was the poet’s ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.”

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Gérard de Nerval Quote: “The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally by a silent deterioration of the mind.”

12. “The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally by a silent deterioration of the mind.”

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Gérard de Nerval Quote: “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.”

13. “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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Gérard de Nerval Quote: “The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy.”

14. “The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy.”

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Gérard de Nerval Quote: “Sleep occupies a third of our life. It is the consolation to the woes of our days or the woe of their pleasures; but I have never found that sleep was a rest. After a swoon of a few minutes a new life begins, freed from conditions of time and space, and doubtless like the life which awaits us after death. Who knows whether there does not exist a link between these two existences, and whether it is not possible for the soul now to bind them together?”

15. “Sleep occupies a third of our life. It is the consolation to the woes of our days or the woe of their pleasures; but I have never found that sleep was a rest. After a swoon of a few minutes a new life begins, freed from conditions of time and space, and doubtless like the life which awaits us after death. Who knows whether there does not exist a link between these two existences, and whether it is not possible for the soul now to bind them together?”

— Gérard de Nerval

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