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Sooner barbarity than boredom.


Theophile Gautier

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To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
THEOPHILE GAUTIER To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind
THEOPHILE GAUTIER It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not...
THEOPHILE GAUTIER What I write is not for little girls.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Books follow morals, and not morals books.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER I was born to travel and write verse.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER I am a man for whom the outside world exists.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that yo...
THEOPHILE GAUTIER The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx...
THEOPHILE GAUTIER I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER The cat is a dilettante in fur.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of executi...
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Down comes rain drop, bubble follows; On the house-top one by one Flock the synagogue of swall...
THEOPHILE GAUTIER High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. [Fr., L'Art supreme Seule a l'eterni...
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen
THEOPHILE GAUTIER It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal...one that does not ...
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does no...
THEOPHILE GAUTIER If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER All of us are a culmination of vital parts of our parents and their pasts. A vital part of the circu...
SHERRILYN KENYON Grim sighed heavily. "I swear I'm getting a migraine."
"My mom suffers from those a lot, too."<...
SHERRILYN KENYON Baby, I ain't trash. Trash is something you throw away. My people keep me.
SHERRILYN KENYON I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
ÉMILE ZOLA The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suff...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Calm down. I’m a demon, Nick. Hematite doesn’t like my genetics. It doesn’t mean anything othe...
SHERRILYN KENYON Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE People who make no noise are dangerous.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, no...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE In short, Luck's always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE By the work one knows the workman.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A hungry stomach cannot hear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lawyers are like morticians. We all need one sooner or later, but better later than sooner.
EILEEN GOUDGE I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
ANGUS GROSSART Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
JOHN BERGER Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?.
JOHN BERGER I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
THOMAS CARLYLE Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
ARTHUR HELPS I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN A fault is sooner found than mended.
ULPIAN FULWELL There's nothing sooner dry than women's tears.
JOHN WEBSTER Hopefully, it will be sooner than later.
JASON TAYLOR As man becomes more technologically advanced, his barbarity becomes even more lethal
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
EDMOND ROSTAND A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret t...
EDMOND ROSTAND The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?
EDMOND ROSTAND A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, suc...
EDMOND ROSTAND Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know th...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
ALFRED DE VIGNY Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the coura...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
RAYMOND QUENEAU What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries...
ALFRED DE VIGNY Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than...
ALFRED DE VIGNY From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see...
ALFRED DE VIGNY One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opini...
ALFRED DE VIGNY But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond ti...
ALFRED DE VIGNY I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller...
ALFRED DE VIGNY France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast...
ALFRED DE VIGNY Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
ALFRED DE VIGNY Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot...
ALFRED DE VIGNY What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
ALFRED DE VIGNY The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning...
ALFRED DE VIGNY The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the huma...
ALFRED DE VIGNY The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
ALFRED DE VIGNY Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
ALFRED DE VIGNY No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and...
ALFRED DE VIGNY We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but wh...
ALFRED DE VIGNY On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
ALFRED DE VIGNY Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we no...
ALFRED DE VIGNY Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
ALFRED DE VIGNY We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
ALFRED DE VIGNY Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

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To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
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The bust survives the state,
The crown the potentate.
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