Quotes by Charles Nodier

About Charles Nodier:

Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier was an influential French author and librarian who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the conte fantastique, gothic literature, and vampire tales. His dream related writings influenced the later works of Gerard de Nerval.
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Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

Charles Nodier

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

Scarcely has night arrived to undeceive, unfurling her wings of crepe (wings drained even of the glimmer just now dying in the tree-tops); scarcely has the last glint still dancing on the burnished metal heights of the tall towers ceased to fade, lik...

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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

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

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

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.

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The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.

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Author Bio

  • NameCharles Nodier
  • DescriptionFrench author
  • BornApril 29, 1780
  • DiedJanuary 27, 1844
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionJournalist; Lexicographer; Author; Librarian; Poet; Entomologist; Novelist
  • AwardsKnight Of The Legion Of Honour