Theophile Gautier. Mademoiselle de Maupin (№ 296862)

In order to live, there is no need for beautiful. If you cancel the flowers, the material this one does not suffer; and after all who wants their flowers did not? I rather not have potatoes than roses, and I believe that nobody, except for the benthamite, not able to weed the flower bed of tulips to plant cabbages. What good is a woman's beauty? As soon as the woman firmly folded from a medical point of view and able to bear children, any economist recognizes it fine.