“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.””
Quotes by Gérard de Nerval
“l'imagination m'apportait des délices infinies. En recouvrant ce que les hommes appellent la raison, faudra-t-il regretter de les avoir perdues...?My imagination gave me infinite delight. In recovering what men call reason, do I have to regret the loss of these joys?...””
“La mélancolie est une maladie qui consiste à voir les choses comme elles sont.””
“It is impossible for a Parisian to resist the desire to flick through the old volumes laid out by a bookseller.[]””
“What is madness...to go on platonically loving a woman who will never love you.””
“You see spirits who talk to you in broad daylight, at night you see perfectly shaped, perfectly distinct phantoms, you think you remember having lived in other forms, you imagine you are growing very tall and that your head is touching the stars, the horizon of Saturn and Jupiter spreads before your eyes, bizarre creatures appear before you with all the characteristics of real beings . . . If the mind has to become completely unhinged in order to place us in communication with another world, it is clear that the mad will never be able to prove to the sane how blind they are, to say the very least!””
Gérard de NervalGérard de Nerval was a French poet, essayist, and translator, known for his profound influence on the Symbolist movement and his exploration of the themes of dreams, memory, and the subconscious. Born...