"Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from……" — Theophile Gautier
"Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel."
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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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