“I am a man for whom the visible world exists.”

— Théophile Gautier , Paris

Je suis un homme pour qui le monde visible existe.
Remark, May 1, 1857, reported in the Journal des Goncourts (Paris: Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1888) vol. 1, p. 182; translation from Joanna Richardson Théophile Gautier: His Life & Times (London: Max Reinhardt, 1958) p. 14.

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