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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
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[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 folkUnder 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
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[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
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[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