“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.” — Théophile Gautier Chance Copy Share Image
It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women. — Theophile Gautier Gentle Copy Share Image
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. — Theophile Gautier Chance Copy Share Image
The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist. — Theophile Gautier Made Copy Share Image
The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals — Theophile Gautier Animal Copy Share Image
Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist. — Theophile Gautier Art Copy Share Image
What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a… — Theophile Gautier Cutting Copy Share Image
“And then again, I am no longer quite such a good-looking young fellow that tapestries leap off the wall in my honour.” — Théophile Gautier Young Fellow Copy Share Image
Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder… — Theophile Gautier Break 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 Cats 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 Caressing Copy Share Image
“Tear up that funeral shroud—you are going to smother yourself in it. I am beauty, I am youth, I am life—come to… — Théophile Gautier Beauty Copy Share Image
“Here a few poor and stunted flowers stood with drooping heads, like a convent of consumptive girls, waiting for a ray of… — Théophile Gautier Flower 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
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
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
“Some centuries ago they had Raphael and Michael Angelo; now we have Mr. Paul Delaroche, and all because we are progressing. You… — Théophile Gautier Art 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
“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
“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
“(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
“Although it was only six o'clock, the night was already dark. The fog, made thicker by its proximity to the Seine, blurred… — Théophile Gautier Cold Copy Share Image
“What is certain is that the world has got beyond the stage at which one may affect modesty and maidenly shame, and… — Théophile Gautier Marriage Copy Share Image
“You know, the immortality of the soul, free will and all that -- it's all very amusing to talk about up to… — Théophile Gautier Death Copy Share Image
Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest. — Theophile Gautier Brevity Copy Share Image
To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art. — Theophile Gautier Art Copy Share Image
Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly. — Theophile Gautier Beautiful Copy Share Image
The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil. — Theophile Gautier Cat 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
Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living. — Theophile Gautier Body Copy Share Image
“For Art alone is great: The bust survives the state, The crown the potentate.” — Théophile Gautier Art Copy Share Image
[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire. — Theophile Gautier Art Copy Share Image
“Things perish. Gods have passed. But song sublimely cast Shall citadels outlast.” — Théophile Gautier Citadels Copy Share Image
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. — Theophile Gautier Beautiful Copy Share Image
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. — Theophile Gautier Affection Copy Share Image
Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection! — Theophile Gautier Absolutes Copy Share Image
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