Theophile Gautier Quotes

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• The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals

  Theophile Gautier

  Dog, Heart, Animal

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  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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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• To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

  Theophile Gautier

  Love, Heart, Carpe Diem

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

  Theophile Gautier

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Eye

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• No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.

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

  Theophile Gautier

  Artist, Men, Doe

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• It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.

  Theophile Gautier

  Friendship, Philosophical, Cat

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• Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.

  Theophile Gautier

  Guests, Welcome, Brevity

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• When we love - we grow

  Theophile Gautier

  Greatest Love, Grows

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• Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

  Theophile Gautier

  Art, Choices, Care

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• The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

  Theophile Gautier

  Men, Occupation, Fitting

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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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  Teaching, Age, Doe

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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 break my heart

  Theophile Gautier

  Heart, Earth, Wonder

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• Modesty was made for the ugly.

  Theophile Gautier

  Ugly, Modesty, Made

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

  Theophile Gautier

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dog

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• The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.

  Theophile Gautier

  Art, Philosophical, Purpose

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• The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

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  Cat, Solitude, Toil

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• With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.

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  Powerful, Argument, Persuasive

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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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  Fate, Hands, People

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

  Theophile Gautier

  Cat, Affection, Slave

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.

  Theophile Gautier

  Beauty, Art, Tasks

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• Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.

  Theophile Gautier

  Writing, House, Literature

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• It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

  Theophile Gautier

  Manners, Gentle, Irresistible

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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 almost frighten you, for it is impossible to believe that a soul is not there.

  Theophile Gautier

  Believe, Cat, Eye

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• What I write is not for little girls.

  Theophile Gautier

  Girl, Writing, Littles

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