It may well be that the pictures of Cour... by Theophile Gautier

Art poet Theatre journalist playwright

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.

- Theophile Gautier

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Friend Will

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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Body

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

- Theophile Gautier

Eyes Soul

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

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

- Theophile Gautier

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

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