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

—Théophile Gautier

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About Théophile Gautier

Portrait of Théophile Gautier

Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (US: goh-TYAY; French: [pjɛʁ ʒyl teɔfil ɡotje]; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.

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The cat is a dilettante in fur.

—Théophile Gautier

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There was just something about her dying that I had understood but not really understood, if you know what I mean. I mean, you can know someone is dying on an intellectual level, but emotionally it hasn't really hit you.

—Jesse Andrews in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

—Annie Dillard

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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

—Aldous Huxley

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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