4 Quotes by Théophile Gautier about writing
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This apparent hurly-burly and disorder turn out, after all, to reproduce real life with its fantastic ways more accurately than the most carefully studied out drama of manners. Every man is in himself all humanity, and if he writes what occurs to him he succeeds better than if he copies, with the help of a magnifying glass, objects placed outside of him.
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What I write is not for little girls.
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I was born to travel and write verse.
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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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