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1. "Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature." ~ Gerard De Nerval

2. "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." ~ Gerard De Nerval

3. "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." ~ Gerard De Nerval

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." ~ Gerard De Nerval

5. "God is dead!" ~ Gerard De Nerval

6. "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?..." ~ Gérard De Nerval

7. "Water drinkers perceive nothing but the crude and material appearance of things, while intoxication, on the contrary, dulls the eyes of the body and brightens those of the soul." ~ Gérard De Nerval

8. "La mélancolie est une maladie qui consiste à voir les choses comme elles sont." ~ Gérard De Nerval

9. "Moi ? C'est une image que je poursuis, rien de plus." ~ Gérard De Nerval

10. "Les premiers instants du sommeil sont l'image de la mort..." ~ Gérard De Nerval

11. "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 Nerval

12. "What is madness...to go on platonically loving a woman who will never love you." ~ Gérard De Nerval

13. "La pensée se glace en se traduisant en phrases." ~ Gérard De Nerval

14. "And then a lady in a window high, Fair-haired, dark-eyed, and dressed in ancient style...Whom, in another life, perhaps I've seen, And whom I now remember with a sigh." ~ Gérard De Nerval

15. "En cherchant l'oeil de Dieu, je n'ai vu qu'un orbiteVaste, noir et sans fond..." ~ Gérard De Nerval

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The priest gazed around my cell and answered in a voice that sounded very weary to me. 'Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. That is the face you are asked to see.'This perked me up a little. I said I had been looking at the stones in these walls for months. There wasn't anything or anyone in the world I knew better. Maybe at one time, way back, I had searched for a face in them. But the face I was looking for was as bright as the sun and the flame of desire—and it belonged to Marie."
Author: Albert Camus