Quotes of Theophile Gautier - somelinesforyou

“ The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ Le hasard, c'est peutêtre le pseudonyme de Dieu quand il ne veut pas signer. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ 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 in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ I have kept thee long in waiting, dear Romuald, and thou mayst well have thought that I had forgotten thee. But I have come from a long distance and from a place from which no one has ever before returned; there is neither moon nor sun in the country from which I come; there is naught but space and shadow; neither road nor path; no ground for the foot, no air for the wing; and yet here I am, for love is stronger than death, and it will end by vanquishing it. Ah! what gloomy faces and what terrible things I have seen in my journeying! What a world of trouble my soul, returned to this earth by the power of my will, has had in finding its body and reinstating itself therein! What mighty efforts I had to put forth before I could raise the stone with which they had covered me! See! the palms of my poor hands are all blistered from it. Kiss them to make them well, dear love! ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ I had never been into society; for me the world was the enclosure of the college and the seminary. I had a vague knowledge that there was a something called woman, but I never dwelt upon the subject; I was absolutely innocent. I saw my infirm old mother only twice a year; that was the extent of my connection with the outside world. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ The cat is a dilettante in fur. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ The cat is a dilettante in fur. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ I was born to travel and write verse. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ What I write is not for little girls. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ Sooner barbarity than boredom. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. ”

- Theophile Gautier
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