Literature has nothing to do with useful... by Theophile Gautier | We Heart Quotes

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

- Theophile Gautier

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God Want

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

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I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

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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.

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Good heavens! What a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!

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It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads as ours, already streaked with silver threads.

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Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.

- Theophile Gautier

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