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«Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature»
Author: Gerard de Nerval
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blossoming, each, flower, flowered, is a, out, out to, soul, The Blossoms
«How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.»
Author: Gerard de Nerval
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commune, corresponds, covers, degrees, emanate, identifying, in chorus, rays, the Chorus, transparent, unimpeded
«Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.»
Author: Gerard de Nerval
«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.»
«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.»
«God is dead! Heaven is empty - Weep, children, you no longer have a father.»
Author: Gerard de Nerval
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Gerard de Nerval
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tree of knowledge
«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.»
Author: Gerard de Nerval
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powerless
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