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I was born to travel and write verse.

Theophile Gautier

Travel

A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.

Theophile Gautier

Friend

Will

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

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

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

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Books

Morals

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

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

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Body

Living

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

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Soul

Eyes

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

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Satisfaction

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

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Necessity

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

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

Friendship

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

Theophile Gautier

Boredom

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

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Word

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.