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Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet. — Theophile Gautier

When we love - we grow — Theophile Gautier

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist. — Theophile Gautier

Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears! — Theophile Gautier

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look. — Theophile Gautier

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument. — Theophile Gautier

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living. — Theophile Gautier

What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love. — Theophile Gautier

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire. — Theophile Gautier

To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art. — Theophile Gautier

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. — Theophile Gautier

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. — Theophile Gautier

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing. — Theophile Gautier

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist. — Theophile Gautier

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign. — Theophile Gautier

And of a Sunday swarm the folk
Under the honeysuckle vine,
Quaffing, the while they talk and smoke,
The sun, the melody, the wine. — Theophile Gautier

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes? — Theophile Gautier

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest. — Theophile Gautier

Modesty was made for the ugly. — Theophile Gautier

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. — Theophile Gautier

Things perish. Gods have passed.
But song sublimely cast
Shall citadels outlast. — Theophile Gautier

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity. — Theophile Gautier

Cats are the tigers of us poor devils. — Theophile Gautier

No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved. — Theophile Gautier

The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals — Theophile Gautier

Sooner barbarity than boredom. — Theophile Gautier

Pleasure has turned into passion much more quickly than I should ever have thought possible. — Theophile Gautier

Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands. — Theophile Gautier

I belong to those for whom the superfluous is necessary. — Theophile Gautier

For Art alone is great:
The bust survives the state,
The crown the potentate. — Theophile Gautier

Yes, I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart. — Theophile Gautier

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen. — Theophile Gautier

What I write is not for little girls. — Theophile Gautier

And then again, I am no longer quite such a good-looking young fellow that tapestries leap off the wall in my honour. — Theophile Gautier

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. — Theophile Gautier

I am a man for whom the outside world exists. — Theophile Gautier

Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly. — Theophile Gautier

Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you. — Theophile Gautier

White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments. — Theophile Gautier

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal ... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. — Theophile Gautier

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. — Theophile Gautier

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet. — Theophile Gautier

Books follow morals, and not morals books. — Theophile Gautier

[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. — Theophile Gautier

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil. — Theophile Gautier

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women. — Theophile Gautier

[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society ... — Theophile Gautier

I was born to travel and write verse. — Theophile Gautier

The public, which has been wrong before and is wrong now, can accept only demons and angels on the stage — Theophile Gautier

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. — Theophile Gautier

The cat is a dilettante in fur. — Theophile Gautier

Pleasure has turned into habit much more quickly thn I should have ever thought possible. — Theophile Gautier

High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. — Theophile Gautier