“(Decadent style) is ingenious, complicated, learned, full of shades of meaning and research, always pushing further the limits of language... forcing itself… — Theophile Gautier Decadence Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. — Theophile Gautier Art Copy Share Image
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections… — Theophile Gautier Friendship Copy Share Image
[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. — Theophile Gautier Cat Copy Share Image
“It is as absurd to say that a man is a drunkard because he describes an orgy or a debauchee because he… — Théophile Gautier Books Copy Share Image
It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such… — Theophile Gautier Aging Copy Share Image
“What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing children, she will… — Théophile Gautier Art Copy Share Image
“Smoke By Théophile Gautier Translated by Norman R. Shapiro Over there, trees are sheltering A hunchedback hut... A slum, no more... Roof… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women. — Theophile Gautier Gentle Copy Share Image
There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is… — Theophile Gautier Beautiful Copy Share Image
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. — Theophile Gautier Love Copy Share Image
“This apparent hurly-burly and disorder turn out, after all, to reproduce real life with its fantastic ways more accurately than the most… — Théophile Gautier Art Copy Share Image
The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist. — Theophile Gautier Made Copy Share Image
“I have kept thee long in waiting, dear Romuald, and thou mayst well have thought that I had forgotten thee. But I… — Théophile Gautier Afterlife Copy Share Image
“Nothing is truly beautiful unless it cannot be used for anything; everything that is useful is ugly because it is the expression… — Theophile Gautier Beauty Copy Share Image
White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments. — Theophile Gautier Exhibits Copy Share Image
“I longed to be able to gather my whole life-force into a single impulse, and transmit it to her and blow into… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands. — Theophile Gautier Bedroom Copy Share Image
Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his… — Theophile Gautier Cat Copy Share Image
Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind,… — Theophile Gautier Born Copy Share Image
“Poate că m-a iubit in tăcere o inimă umilă pe care n-am înțeles-o sau am zdrobit-o, poate că eu însumi am fost… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Sometimes he will sit on the carpet in front of you, looking at you with eyes so melting, so caressing and so… — Theophile Gautier Believe Copy Share Image
Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look. — Theophile Gautier Age Copy Share Image
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