Gerard De Nerval Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: May 22, 1808 - January 26, 1855

Topics

DeathSleepThoughtsImpossibleTask

I'm a player who likes to get on the ball and use it.

Matteo Guendouzi

BallGetWhoPlayerLikesUse

We're so lucky where we live, but we're so out of touch. Everyone's mindset is made to feel that refugees are a problem, but it's more than that. They're human beings, too. They were forced from their homes.

Sonny Bill Williams

LiveMindsetFeelProblemLuckyOut

I was shocked and thrilled when I started getting messages and calls from people I look up to in the industry.

Shraddha Kapoor

PeopleLookUpIndustryStarted

One makes a trip by day, but by night, one sets out on a journey.

Tove Jansson

JourneyDayNightOutTripMakes

I feel pressure every day. It is only pressure that I put on myself, but I would expect all professional sportspeople to feel pressure to perform their best whenever they are at work.

Tony McCoy

WorkMyselfBestDayPressureFeel

I'm very happy with my life. I am what I am. I don't worry about anything that I can't control. That's a really good lesson in life.

Tom Watson

LifeGoodI AmHappyControlWorry

You always notice a facelift on a woman. It's a tightness around the ears, and the scar is usually inside the ears. If I suspect it's been done, I usually move around until I can see it. But with a man, it actually pulls your beard and your sideburns back, and that's what's so strange.

Tom Ford

WomanManBeardYouBackI Can

I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.

Rob Bell

PaintingWorldLanguagePictures

I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.

Mary Karr

InspireWeekDesireUpAnythingGet

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.

Lucy Powell

HomeGovernmentMoreDeterminedSeem

I like to think that I'm a populist entertainer, but I'm a little bit idiosyncratic, and sometimes the networks wouldn't really roll with that.

Joss Whedon

ThinkSometimesLittleRollPopulist

I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.

Donna Brazile

ThoughtYouKnowingPraiseStrengths

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