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

When we love - we grow

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Modesty was made for the ugly.

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

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

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

Cats are the tigers of us poor devils.

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

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

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

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

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

I belong to those for whom the superfluous is necessary.

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

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.

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

What I write is not for little girls.

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

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

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

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

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.

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

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

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

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

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

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

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

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

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

I was born to travel and write verse.

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

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

The cat is a dilettante in fur.

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

High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.