“Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.”
Charles Nodier“The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.”
Charles Nodier“It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed!”
Charles Nodier“But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.”
Charles Nodier“If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.”
Charles Nodier“Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.”
Charles Nodier, Smarra & Trilby“Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.”
Charles Nodier, Smarra & Trilby“In another world,' he said, lowering his voice; I remember... was it not in another world, in a life which was not in thrall to sleep and its phantoms?...”
Charles Nodier, Smarra & Trilby