80 Quotes by Théophile Gautier
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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.
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To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.
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Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.
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Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection!
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It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.
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The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.
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Sooner barbarity than boredom.
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The cat is a dilettante in fur.
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No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.
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