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• If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
• [A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society...
• [A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.
• Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection!
• It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.
• Sometimes he will sit on the carpet in front of you, looking at you with eyes so melting, so caressing and so…
• Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.
• Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his…
• Sooner barbarity than boredom.
• The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought…
• No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.
• Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder…

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