"The word poet literally means maker: anything which……" — Theophile Gautier
"The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist."
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Theophile Gautier
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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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More Exist Quotes
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one of 4,294 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
— Aristotle
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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be…
— Aristotle
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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for…
— Aristotle
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
— Karen Armstrong
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
— Mary Kay Ash
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent…
— David Attenborough
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist…
— Saint Augustine
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
— Saint Augustine
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
— Marcus Aurelius
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While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.
— Michele Bachmann
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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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