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“No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it is engineered upon principles of benevolence... the cosmos remains always beautiful and profoundly interesting in every corner-and if I had as many lives as a cat I would leave no corner unexplored.”

Ifs Thinking World Long Beautiful Interesting Principles Cat Remains Corners Cosmos Delusion Benevolence Pious Unexplored

Author:Thomas Huxley

“The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.”

World Facts Humor Cat Remains Pursuit Despite Possessed Tails Chasing Elude Frantic Search For Truth Quarry

Author:Gina Barreca

“A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.”

Wells Cat Remains

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“The appeal of the cat lies in the very fact that she has formed no close bond with [man], that she has the uncompromising independence of a tiger or a leopard while she is hunting in his stables and barns: that she still remains mysterious and remote when she is rubbing herself gently against the legs of her mistress or purring contentedly in front of the fire.”

Men Stills Facts Lying Fire Fronts Cat Independence Remains Legs Mysterious Appeals Hunting Tigers Mistress Barns Uncompromising Leopards Purring

Book:Man Meets Dog

Source: Man Meets Dog

“Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.”

Trying Littles Humanity Animal Limits Cat Blind Remains Folly Funny Cat

Author:Andre Norton

“...with a cat you stand on much the same footing that you stand with a fine and dignified friend; if you forfeit his respect and confidence the relationship suffers. The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.”

Ifs Men Wells Remember Suffering Fine Please Cat Remains Forfeit Purring Cats

Book:The Tiger in the House

Source: The Tiger in the House

“The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.”

Men Wells Remember Please Cat Remains Purring Cats

Book:The Tiger in the House

Source: The Tiger in the House

“All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.”

Long Sides Doors Return Conscious Cat Remains Slips

Author:Walter de La Mare