"Eyes so transparent that through them the soul…" — Theophile Gautier
"Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen."
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45 Quotes by Theophile Gautier
Theophile Gautier has 45 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
— Aristotle
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
— Aristotle
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and…
— Neil Armstrong
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Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
— Victoria Abril
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone…
— David Attenborough
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
— David Attenborough
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An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
— Margaret Atwood
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the…
— Saint Augustine
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He…
— Teresa of Avila
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