How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic…

- Gerard De Nerval

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

- Gerard De Nerval

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 …

- Gerard De Nerval

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

- Gerard De Nerval

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! …

- Gerard De Nerval

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

- Gerard De Nerval

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 an…

- Gerard De Nerval

The key to success is simple. Make people dream.

- Gerard De Nerval

Man, do you think yours is the only soul? Look around you. Everything that you see quivers with being. Though your thoughts are free, one thing you d…

- Gerard De Nerval