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Le hasard, c'est peut-être le pseudonyme de Dieu quand il ne veut pas signer.
Theophile Gautier The Cross of Berny or Irene's Lovers chance coincidence god
The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavorin…
Theophile Gautier Mademoiselle de Maupin impatience love patience wisdom
Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessl…
Theophile Gautier Mademoiselle de Maupin lovers passion romance seduction
I have kept thee long in waiting, dear Romuald, and thou mayst well have thought that I had forgotten thee. But I have come from a long distance and from a place from which no one …
Theophile Gautier Clarimonde afterlife death love vampire
Demander à la poésie du sentimentalisme ... ce n'est pas ça. Des mots rayonnants, des mots de lumière ... avec un rythme et une musique, voilà ce que c'est, la poésie.
Theophile Gautier Pages from the Goncourt Journals poetry
I had never been into society; for me the world was the enclosure of the college and the seminary. I had a vague knowledge that there was a something called woman, but I never dwel…
Theophile Gautier Clarimonde priest religion vows women
I have often been charged with falsehood and hypocrisy, yet there lives not the man who would more gladly than I speak truthfully and lay bare his heart; but as I have not one idea…
Theophile Gautier Mademoiselle de Maupin earnestness people
What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing children, she will always be good enough in the opinion of economists. What is t…
Theophile Gautier Mademoiselle de Maupin art beauty
To be beautiful, handsome, means that you possess a power which makes all smile upon and welcome you; that everybody is impressed in your favor and inclined to be of your opinion; …
Theophile Gautier Mademoiselle de Maupin beauty ugliness
Nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need, and the needs of man are ignoble and disgusting, like his poor weak nature. Th…
Theophile Gautier art beauty uselessness utility

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Unscramble THEOPHILE9-letter words that start with T9-letter words that end in E9-letter words containing HE9-letter words containing LE9-letter words with T and H
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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