Theophile Gautier Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Theophile Gautier:

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
~Theophile Gautier


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theophile-gautier-quotes/#afa85a3f

Books follow morals, and not morals books.
~Theophile Gautier


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theophile-gautier-quotes/#aca8b3e0

A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.
~Theophile Gautier


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theophile-gautier-quotes/#28cdcc7e

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theophile-gautier-quotes/#70627ffd

The cat is a dilettante in fur.
~Theophile Gautier


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theophile-gautier-quotes/#bf845cc5

Sooner barbarity than boredom.
~Theophile Gautier


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theophile-gautier-quotes/#6d026141

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theophile-gautier-quotes/#b826edd3

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theophile-gautier-quotes/#72e37e5b

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
~Theophile Gautier


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theophile-gautier-quotes/#2d9e06c7

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
~Theophile Gautier


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theophile-gautier-quotes/#4504ced2

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
~Theophile Gautier


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theophile-gautier-quotes/#b078eb4b

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theophile-gautier-quotes/#a7b9e270

I was born to travel and write verse.
~Theophile Gautier


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theophile-gautier-quotes/#92328f42

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.
~Theophile Gautier


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theophile-gautier-quotes/#128dd82b

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.
~Theophile Gautier


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theophile-gautier-quotes/#1d1b0600

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
~Theophile Gautier


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theophile-gautier-quotes/#bba95186

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.
~Theophile Gautier


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theophile-gautier-quotes/#4ddb7d04

What I write is not for little girls.
~Theophile Gautier


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theophile-gautier-quotes/#f378eafd

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.
~Theophile Gautier


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theophile-gautier-quotes/#3e156f0a

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