Théophile Gautier Quote

Paradise, as described by the theologians, seems to me too musical: I confess that I should be incapable of listening to a cantata that would last ten thousand years.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


Paradise, as described by the theologians, seems to me too musical: I confess that I should be incapable of listening to a cantata that would last...

Paradise, as described by the theologians, seems to me too musical: I confess that I should be incapable of listening to a cantata that would last...

Paradise, as described by the theologians, seems to me too musical: I confess that I should be incapable of listening to a cantata that would last...

Paradise, as described by the theologians, seems to me too musical: I confess that I should be incapable of listening to a cantata that would last...