Theophile Gautier Quotes
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If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
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[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society...
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[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.
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Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection!
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It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.
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Sometimes he will sit on the carpet in front of you, looking at you with eyes so melting, so caressing and so human, that they…
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Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.
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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.
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Sooner barbarity than boredom.
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The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent…
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No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.
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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…
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Books follow morals, and not morals books.
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Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.
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Modesty was made for the ugly.
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The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals
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When we love - we grow
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You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
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Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon,…
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Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.
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