Théophile Gautier Quote

Critical lice are like bodily lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.


Mademoiselle de Maupin: A Romance of Love and Passion (1835)


Critical lice are like bodily lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

Critical lice are like bodily lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

Critical lice are like bodily lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

Critical lice are like bodily lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.